Join the N&T COI for a presentation on the outcomes and deliverables of the Operational Use of Non-Terrestrial Networks project.
Topic: Overview of the project report on the “Operational Use of Non-Terrestrial Network Technology” and a technical deep dive into a mobile LEO/SD-WAN use case.
Description: The N&T COI has completed a report on the “Operational Use of Non-Terrestrial Network Technology” examining real-world applications of various technologies in a mix of conditions, locations and approaches. The primary goal of this report was to determine the feasibility of its use as a means for government, science, research and education, state and tribal communities, to utilize non- terrestrial-based network services in places where terrestrial fiber, ethernet circuits or commodity Internet services may have unacceptable deployment timelines or are either unavailable or available with very low capacity.
Join the N&T COI for a presentation overview of this report along with a technical deep dive into another use case example leveraging non-terrestrial network technology coupled with Software Defined-Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) to deliver rapid, mobile network connectivity for a remote field operation.
Format: Virtual event; meeting details provided upon registration.
Speaker Bios
Robert Sears is the Director of N-Wave, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Enterprise Network program. N-Wave operates within the NOAA Office of the Chief Information Officer to align and execute on NOAA's strategic plan for network transport and optimization. It offers a diverse portfolio of enterprise networking services, including a NOAA operated and managed national and international wide area network, NOAA Trusted Internet Connection Access Points, and multiple nationwide NOAA campus networks. Through these services, N-Wave supports critical operations and research missions for NOAA, Department of Commerce bureaus, Department of Defense and other government agencies through highly available, secure, high-speed network transport and services.
Robert serves in several capacities in a variety of government and industry professional organizations. He is the Chair of the Federal IPv6 Task Force, established by the Federal Chief Information Officers Council (CIOC), with a goal to communicate and provide resources to Federal agencies, industry and other stakeholders on Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) only adoption among federal agencies. He is also the Federal Network Representative Co-Chair for the Cloud and Infrastructure Community of Practice (C&I CoP), chartered under the Federal CIOC, and formed to provide IT practitioners with information about application rationalization, data center optimization and federal cloud computing. He is the Government Chair for the American Council for Technology-Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC) Networks and Telecommunications Community of Interest (N&T COI) and serves as a member of the ACT-IAC Climate Change Workgroup High-Performance Computing Project, which have an overall mission to improve government through the effective and innovative application of technology.
Mr. Sears has 33 years of combined military and federal service. His Naval career involved supporting Submarine Squadron Twenty-Two during Operation Desert Storm as an electronics calibration technician; duty assignment with Command Second Fleet on the USS Mount Whitney supporting meteorological systems, communications and surface and air RADAR; and a transition to networking and IT services at the Naval Atlantic Meteorology and Oceanography Center. His career with NOAA spans 22 years with over 10 of those years leading the N-Wave program. Mr. Sears’s background and degree are in electronic engineering and communications.
Andrew Lee is a Network Architect with the N-Wave Transport team where he works on technologies to strengthen the core of the N-Wave network and explores new technologies to
expand the service edge in a secure and scalable manner. He also functions as a network engineering resource on NOAA collaborations with EUMETSAT and ISTRAC. He has been with
the GlobalNOC at Indiana University since 2004 working on a wide variety of networking projects from high-performance computers to national networks such as Internet2. He joined the N-Wave team in July 2022. Prior to joining Indiana University, he worked at a variety of large internet service providers and data center operators.
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