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COMMERCIAL SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS (COMSATCOM)

SAMPLE TASK ORDER THREE (STO 3)

As of February 6, 2024 Sample Task Order (STO) #3

1.0 Scope

The Government requires access to an end-to-end service establishing earth station infrastructure and ancillary services with user traffic interconnection between commercial teleports and Department of Defense (DoD) core nodes through the means of terrestrial transport. Space Segment requirements will be obtained under a separate STO.

2.0 Objective

The objective is to obtain commercial teleport and terrestrial transport services supporting commercial satellite communication USMC requirements. The mission partner should be able to place an order through the IDIQ and have services available to them at the requested time and place.

3.0 Technical Requirements

The contractor shall provide hosted services on contractors furnished equipment (CFE) and Government furnished equipment (GFE) at a commercial teleport in each operating region, with terrestrial transport from each commercial teleport to USMC locations within 90 days of award. All CFE and GFE shall support requirements as defined in PWS (e.g. Transmission Security, etc.), in addition to requirements defined below.

3.1 Equipment

3.1.1 GFE

3.1.1.1 The contractor shall provide COMSATCOM services at each commercial teleport. The Government shall provide three GFE LinkWay architecture for commercial teleports. GFE LinkWay architecture consists of one LinkWay Master Reference Terminal (MRT) and two traffic terminal modems for each commercial earth station. The current LinkWay software version is 9.2 and the Government shall maintain the software baseline on all three LinkWay Hubs.

3.1.1.2 The Government shall maintain the maintenance contract for all LinkWay GFE supporting this requirement. The contractor shall support the Government with routine LinkWay network maintenance and configuration for optimizing network operation and loading.

3.1.1.3 Ancillary equipment

The Government shall provide ancillary equipment at each Points of Presence for the interconnection of terrestrial transport from each commercial teleport. The list of GFE ancillary equipment shall be provided after award.

3.1.2 CFE

3.1.2.1 The contractor shall provide COMSATCOM services at each commercial teleport on one timing group of iDirect Evolution CFE architecture running iDirect software compatible with Department of Defense gateways. The currently required iDirect software version is iDX 4.4 and shall adhere to Federal Information Processing Standards Publication (FIPS) 140-3 mode and operate with Transmission Security (TRANSEC) enabled but may require upgrades throughout the period of performance as directed by the Government.

3.1.2.2 The contractor provided iDirect network may reside on a shared iDirect hub but specific network resources such as timing group and line cards shall be dedicated to the sole use of USMC.

3.1.2.3 The contractor shall maintain iDirect’s iSupport service for all iDirect CFE supporting this requirement. The contractor shall support the Government with routine iDirect network maintenance and configuration for optimizing network operation and loading.

3.1.2.4 Ancillary equipment

The contractor shall provide ancillary equipment at each commercial teleport to support Government connectivity to manage GFE and the routing of user traffic over terrestrial transport to Government defined Points of Presence (PoP).

The contractor shall provide a consolidate Bill of Material for all iDirect and ancillary equipment.

Deliverable: CFE Bill of Material

3.2 Commercial Teleport

The Government requires commercial teleports to support network and infrastructure requirements at the following locations:

- Americas Region

- EURAF Region

- SWA Region

- WPAC Region

- Global

3.2.1 The contractor shall provide rack colocation at each commercial teleport supporting GFE Linkway hub, CFE iDirect hub, and all required ancillary equipment. All racks housing this equipment shall be secured/securable with door locks.

3.2.2 The Government will operate iDirect and Linkway networks from the commercial teleport in support of requirements defined in STO-1. The quantity and throughput of each network may change throughout the period of performance.

3.2.3 The commercial teleport shall be manned 24/7/365. The contractor shall provide ongoing operational and maintenance support for all provided services. The contractor shall provide as needed hands-on support by teleport staff for incidental hardware activity (e.g., power reset, connect/disconnect cabling, device swap, etc.) and means for higher level support.

3.2.4 The contractor shall provide commercial teleport locations along with each sites detailed information for each supported location. Site information should include relevant information that adds to teleport robustness and availability. Information should include but is not limited to the following: facility power, facility security, antenna and amplifier sizing, antenna pointing and motorization, C/X/Ku/Ka band frequency authorizations or restrictions.

3.2.5 The vendor shall operate and maintain the necessary CFE and GFE TRANSEC-ENABLED modems using at a minimum FIPS 140-3 including their applicable TRANSEC licenses, networking equipment, and any ancillary equipment and parts necessary to support the worldwide reach-back at all commercial teleports.

Deliverable: Teleport locations and detailed information

3.3 Terrestrial

The offeror shall provide terrestrial connectivity between each commercial teleport and Government defined Defense Information System Network (DISN) Government Entry Point (GEP).

3.3.1 The Government requires terrestrial connectivity between each commercial teleport and the following GEP locations

- Camp Lejeune, North Carolina

- Camp Pendleton, California

- Camp Foster, Okinawa, Japan

- Marine Corps Base Hawaii (MCBH), Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii

- Darwin, Australia

- Naval Support Activity Naples, Italy

- Naval Support Activity Bahrain, Manama, Bahrain

- Marine Forces Reserve (MARFORRES, New Orleans, Louisiana

3.3.2 Connectivity between commercial teleports and GEP’s must support the best possible throughput but at a minimum DS-3 and leverage layer 3 VPN connection. The vendor will utilize government identified preferred routing protocol.

3.3.3 Terrestrial connectivity between commercial teleports and GEP’s shall utilize geographically diverse circuits, validated by detailed layout records (DLR). The DLR shall illustrate the physical routing of the circuits leaving the location as well as the long-haul path. DLR’s shall be submitted in PDF format and are required at time of submission.

3.3.4 Each geographically diverse terrestrial link shall be equally sized to handle the aggregate data rate in the case of a failure/unavailability of the other link. The Contractor shall not utilize load-balancing to circumvent this requirement.

3.3.5 Each geographically diverse terrestrial link shall be configured to be “active” in the case of a failure of the other link. Updates to DLR shall be provided 3 days after any change to circuit paths.

Deliverables: DLR

4.0 Lifecycle Management

4.0.1 The Offeror shall present an approach for lifecycle management (CFE maintenance, CFE upgrades, terrestrial circuit maintenance and repairs, unplanned outages).

5.0 Other considerations.

5.0.1 STO 3 is subject to the performance requirements annotated in the contract Performance Work Statement.

5.0.2 The Offeror shall provide the following deliverables:

- CFE Bill of Material

- Teleport locations and detailed information

- DLR’s

5.0.3 Contractor shall meet service metrics:

Commercial Teleport 99.95% availability Terrestrial Transport 99.995% availability Terrestrial Transport 10^-10 Bit Error Rate Terrestrial Transport 300 ms one-way latency CFE iDirect 100,000 hours MTBF CFE ancillary 100,000 hours MTBF

5.0.4 All proposed commercial teleports shall have no less than a 10-degree elevation angle throughout the entire coverage area from the end user terminals to the satellite.

5.0.5 The service start date shall be one month after contract award.

Sample Task Order (STO) #3

SAMPLE TASK ORDER ONE (STO 1)

Sample Task Order (STO) #1

The Government requires access to an end-to-end service capable of supporting multiple full periods, full duplex connections between various end user terminals to other end user terminals, Department of Defense (DoD) and commercial teleports through the means of space segment connectivity. Commercial teleport services and terrestrial transport to USMC end points will be requested under a separate STO.

2.0 Objective

The objective is to obtain commercially provided land mass Ku-band satellite bandwidth to support various USMC requirements. The requirements consist of the option to request transponded capacity or managed Ku-band service in the form of standard commercialized Ku-band bandwidth. The mission partner should be able to place an order through the IDIQ and have services available to them at the requested time and place.

3.0 Technical Requirements

Baseline carrier configurations requirements for each coverage subregion are defined in Technical Specification A. The vendor shall develop and provide link budgets using input data from Technical Specification A.

The vendor shall use their link budget output from the Technical Specification A and the aggregated transponded bandwidth requirements in sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4 to provide an overall transponded bandwidth solution to meet the requirements of STO-1. Technical Specification A defines sample link requirements for various terminal types within each distinct region, and as a result quantities may not align with the aggregated transponded bandwidth quantity below. The Government will provide the operational carrier sizing and allocations after award.

The vendor shall provide maps with clearly depicted and labeled contour lines, demonstrating coverage across all required regions. Contour lines should clearly demonstrate satellite gain to noise temperature ratio (G/T), effective isotropic radiated power (EIRP), 0, and 10-degree elevation angles values for proposed satellite(s) and covered region.

The vendor shall provide a consolidated satellite table of their proposed solution to meet order 1 requirements. The consolidated satellite table shall include at a minimum the satellite name, orbital location, beam name and proposed MHz per satellite beam.

IA is applicable to Satellite Access Center, Satellites, and Contractor Enclave controlling/managing satel-lite communications resources. Details of the contractor solution IA security posture shall be document-ed in the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) provided COMSATCOM IA Questionnaire (CIAQ). The contractor shall ensure that for all controls identified as part of the CIAQ, or other cybersecurity requirements, that the implementation of the control or mitigation identified are in place at the period of performance start date. The contractor shall continually monitor and verify IA is maintained in accordance with the CIAQ so long as the task order/contract is in effect. The contractor may be subject to Government and/or independent verification.

The vendor shall provide satellite, bandwidth, and/or service supply chain agreements that demonstrate their ability to deliver all required bandwidth to meet this order request at time of award.

Deliverable: Link Budgets Deliverable: Satellite Coverage Maps

Deliverable: Consolidated Satellite Table Deliverable: CIAQ Deliverable: Satellite, Bandwidth, and/or Service Supply Chain Agreements

3.1 Space Segment Coverage – Americas Region

Contractor shall provide space segment supporting three geographically distinct regions, (1) contiguous United States (CONUS) covering the 48 contiguous states, (2) 50 State covering the 48 contiguous states, Alaska (Joint Base Richardson-Elmendorf and Fort Wainwright) and Hawaii (landmass between 22.0N, 18.0N, 154.0W and 160.0W), and (3) Central and South America coverage.

3.1.1 50 State coverage Contractor shall provide 52.3 Mbps of space segment covering the 50 US states in the following configurations:

• Linkway networks supporting 10.3 Mbps

• FDMA networks supporting 26.7 Mbps

• iDirect networks supporting 15.3 Mbps

3.1.2 CONUS State coverage

Contractor shall provide 77.6 Mbps and 12.0 MHz of space segment covering the 48 Contiguous US states in the following configurations:

• Linkway networks supporting 60.1 Mbps

• FDMA networks supporting 16.0 Mbps

• NOTM network supporting 12.0 MHz

3.1.3 Central and South America coverage

Contractor shall provide 12.0 MHz of space segment covering the Central and South Americas in the following configurations

3.2 Space Segment Coverage – WPAC Region

Contractor shall provide space segment supporting two geographically distinct regions, (1) Northeast Asia covering the Korean Peninsula, Japan, Philippines and Guam, (2) Southeast Asia covering Thailand, and

(3) Eastern Pacific Ocean maximizing continuous coverage between US West Coast and Hawaii and (4) Western Pacific Ocean maximizing continuous coverage between Okinawa, Japan and the Philippines archipelago chains to include 1,000 nautical miles radius surrounding the Palawan Island.

3.2.1 Northeast Asia coverage

Contractor shall provide 42.8 Mbps and 12.0 MHz of space segment covering Northeast Asia in the following configurations:

• Linkway networks supporting 24.4 Mbps

• FDMA networks supporting 14.3 Mbps

• iDirect networks supporting 4.1 Mbps

3.2.2 Southeast Asia coverage

Contractor shall provide 25.2 Mbps of space segment covering Southeast Asia in the following

• Linkway networks supporting 8.8 Mbps

• FDMA networks supporting 8.2 Mbps

• iDirect networks supporting 8.2 Mbps

3.2.3 Eastern Pacific Ocean coverage

Contractor shall provide 2 CDMA carrier pairs covering Eastern Pacific Ocean in the following

• SADT networks supporting 2 CDMA carrier pairs at 200 x 6400 kbps

3.2.4 Western Pacific Ocean coverage

Contractor shall provide 4 CDMA carrier pairs covering Western Pacific Ocean in the following

• (A) SADT networks supporting 2 CDMA carrier pairs at 200 x 6400 kbps

• (B) SADT networks supporting 2 CDMA carrier pairs at 200 x 6400 kbps

• A and B shall operate on separate satellites.

3.3 Space Segment Coverage – EURAF Region

Contractor shall provide space segment supporting one geographically distinct region, (1) Europe covering Albania, Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Libya, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Senegal, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, and United Kingdom. Terminals operating above 60 degrees North may operate down to 5 degrees elevation.

3.3.1 Europe coverage

Contractor shall provide 30.5 Mbps of space segment covering Europe in the following configurations:

• Linkway networks supporting 9.4 Mbps

• FDMA networks supporting 2.9 Mbps

• iDirect networks supporting 18.2 Mbps

3.4 Space Segment Coverage – Southwest Asia Region

Contractor shall provide space segment supporting one geographically distinct region, Southwest Asia covering Afghanistan, Bahrain, Israel, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.

3.4.1 Southwest Asia coverage with Europe reach back

Contractor shall provide 38.5 Mbps and 12.0 MHz of space segment covering SWA with reach back to Europe in the following configurations:

• Linkway networks supporting 16.0 Mbps

• FDMA networks supporting 16.4 Mbps

• iDirect networks supporting 6.2 Mbps

• NOTM networks supporting 12.0 MHz

3.4.2 Southwest Asia coverage with in-theater loopback

Contractor shall provide 38.5 Mbps and 12.0 MHz of space segment covering SWA connecting to terminals within theater in the following configurations:

• Linkway networks supporting 16.0 Mbps

• FDMA networks supporting 16.4 Mbps

• iDirect networks supporting 6.2 Mbps

• NOTM networks supporting 12.0 MHz

4.0 Lifecycle Management

4.0.1 The Offeror shall present an approach for lifecycle management (carrier reconfiguration, spectrum porting between satellites in a region, spectrum porting between regions, on-going maintenance and operational support services, customer care and help desk support to include electromagnetic interference (EMI)/radio frequency interference (RFI) resolution support, and training).

5.0 Additional considerations.

5.01 STO 1 is subject to the performance requirements annotated in the contract Performance Work Statement.

5.0.2 Contractor shall meet service availability metrics:

Satellite Availability 99.999% availability TDMA Links 99.5% availability FDMA Links 99.7% availability

5.0.3 All proposed satellites supporting Norway in Europe and the western US coast in Eastern Pacific Ocean regions shall support no less than a 5-degree elevation angle from the end user terminals to the satellite. All proposed satellites supporting all other requirements shall support no less than a 10-degree elevation angle throughout each entire coverage region from the end user terminals to the satellite.

5.0.4 The contractor shall offer services on a satellite that is on-orbit, operational, and station-kept.

5.0.5 The order service start date shall be one month after contract award.

5.0.6 The contractor shall configure all links with no less than 1.30 carrier spacing factor.

5.0.7 A single satellite, single beam solution is preferred for each coverage requirement. No more than two satellites beams may be proposed to meet each geographic coverage region.

5.0.8 The contactor shall submit link budgets for their proposed solution. Contractors shall submit link budgets for worst-case within each proposed satellite beam. When terminal locations are provided in the Technical Specification, the contractor shall ensure that links close in those locations; the contractor shall ensure links close in the worst-case scenario terminal location for terminal locations that are not indicated in the Technical Specification. The worst-case terminal location shall be defined as the location within the required coverage area (subregion) with the lowest satellite EIRP. The link margin shall be sufficient to support the target bit error rate, enhance link robustness, and counter the effect of rain and other propagation effects as well as antenna pointing errors and collateral degradations. All links must demonstrate at least 1 dB of link margin.

5.0.9 Technical Specifications link parameters defines notional links to demonstrate a proposed satellite beam can meet mission requirements. A loading plan with operational configurations will be provided upon award.

Sample Task Order (STO) #1

SAMPLE TASK ORDER TWO (STO-2)

Sample Task Order (STO) #2

The Government requires access to a COMSATCOM subscription service providing an end-to-end commercial satellite service capable of supporting deployed users throughout the Americas, Western Pacific (WPAC) regions, Southwest Asia (SWA) and Europe Africa (EURAF) regions, with services back into the DISN network through the means of space and terrestrial connectivity.

2.0 Objective

The objective is to obtain commercially provided and managed satellite bandwidth, teleport, terrestrial, user terminals and other ancillary services required to create an end-to-end solution to support various USMC requirements. The mission partner should be able to place an order through the IDIQ and have services available to them at the requested time and place. The contractor shall propose options for Period of performance (POP), such as 1 month, 1 year and a contractor defined duration which the contractor deems a valuable solution to the government.

3.0 Technical Requirements

Baseline carrier configurations requirements for each coverage region are defined in Section 3.1.3, and Technical Specification A defines sample worst case terminal locations for each region. User terminal specifications are defined by the vendor’s offered terminals. The vendor shall develop and provide link budgets using input data from Section 3.1.3, Technical Specification A, and the performance specifications of their offered terminals.

The vendor shall provide a managed service offering that meets or exceeds the defined throughput requirements for each throughput and terminal size. The Government will provide the operational subscription and terminal quantities after award.

The vendor shall provide maps with clearly depicted and labeled contour lines, demonstrating coverage across all carrier locations defined in Technical Specification A. Contour lines should clearly demonstrate satellite gain to noise temperature ratio (G/T), effective isotropic radiated power (EIRP), 0, and 10-degree elevation angles values for proposed satellite(s) and covered region.

IA is applicable to Satellite Access Center, Satellites, and Contractor Enclave controlling/managing satel-lite communications resources. Details of the contractor solution IA security posture shall be document-ed in the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) provided COMSATCOM IA Questionnaire (CIAQ). The contractor shall ensure that for all controls identified as part of the CIAQ, or other cybersecurity requirements, that the implementation of the control or mitigation identified are in place at the period of performance start date. The contractor shall continually monitor and verify IA is maintained in accordance with the CIAQ so long as the task order/contract is in effect. The contractor may be subject to Government and/or independent verification.

The vendor shall provide satellite, bandwidth, and/or service supply chain agreements that demonstrate their ability to deliver all required bandwidth to meet this order request at time of award.

Deliverable: Link Budgets Deliverable: Satellite Coverage Maps Deliverable: CIAQ Deliverable: Satellite, Bandwidth, and/or Service Supply Chain Agreements

3.1 Managed Service

3.1.1 The Government requires a commercially managed subscription service plan to support terminals defined in section 3.2. The contractor shall provide a turn-key managed network service provided on the contractor’s commercial network to include all bandwidth, network infrastructure inclusive of hub, teleport, space, power, Radio Frequency (RF), etc., along with internet connectivity and network management. Solution should be end-to-end to include software, hardware and service, in addition to any software licenses required. The service shall be capable of supporting terminals at the halt and on the move, and terminals may be relocated through the lifecycle of this pilot contract. Committed information rates (CIR) are specified below:

CIR: 2/1 Mbps supporting mini terminals (65cm or below) CIR: 4/2 Mbps supporting small terminals (100cm or below) CIR: 10/3 Mbps supporting medium terminals (135cm or below)

3.1.2 The contractor shall provide monthly data allowance subscription plans of 50 gigabyte (GB) and additional increments at 50 GB. Subscription plans with GB limits shall have continuous overage ability up to 10 GB past cap with no latency nor change in service. The contractor will notify COR and end user when subscription plan reaches 75% usage. The government shall have the option to upgrade plans as needed with 7 days’ notice to contractor.

3.1.3 Space segment coverage shall include majority of land masses within the prescribed regions. The government understands satellite resources may be limited or unavailable in some regions and solutions may not provide coverage to the entirety of the coverage requirement.

3.1.3.1 Americas Region shall support the following:

CIR 2/1 services plans: QTY 5 CIR 4/2 services plans: QTY 5 CIR 10/3 service plans: QTY 5

3.1.3.2 WPAC Region shall support the following:

CIR 2/1 services plans: QTY 5 CIR 4/2 services plans: QTY 5 CIR 10/3 service plans: QTY 5

3.1.3.3 SWA Region shall support the following:

CIR 2/1 services plans: QTY 5 CIR 4/2 services plans: QTY 5 CIR 10/3 service plans: QTY 5

3.1.3.4 EURAF Region shall support the following:

support the following:

CIR 2/1 services plans: QTY 5 CIR 4/2 services plans: QTY 5 CIR 10/3 service plans: QTY 5

3.2 Terminal Lease

The contractor shall provide leased COMSATCOM terminals consisting of all radio frequency, modem configurations, intermediate frequency, and ancillary equipment necessary for turnkey operation of the terminal (such as cabling and connectors). All equipment shall be factory tested and appropriately packed for shipment. Shipping shall be billed under a separate CLIN as a pass-through charge. The contractor shall provide warranty maintenance and service plan for contractor-provided terminals, being operated both CONUS and OCONUS, in writing within 30 calendar days after receipt of order (ARO). This shall include contingency plans for broken equipment to meet the required availability. The proposed terminals shall be appropriate for the requested service plans. The contractor shall ensure that equipment is certified for use with the specified satellite constellation. The contractor shall provide the cost information for all leased equipment during the PoP and provide cost information for lease options that the contractor currently supports.

3.2.1 Terminal kit must be form-factored for transit cases to facilitate transport via palletized or vehicular means.

3.2.2 Transit cases shall be configured to accommodate a two-person lift and shall be airline checkable

3.2.3 Terminal Kit cases must not exceed 80 total linear inches (combined length, width, and height) each.

3.2.4 Physical hardware setup and teardown of the user terminal shall not exceed the need for more than 2 people and must be within a 15-minute time frame. Setup does not include connecting to the satellite.

3.2.5 The contractor shall provide satellite terminals capable of being operated by both skilled SATCOM operators and operators not experienced in SATCOM.

3.2.6 Terminals shall support operation between -20C and 50C with power input between 100-240 VAC and 50-60 Hz.

3.2.7 The contractor shall provide three terminal options with antennas reflector sized Mini, consisting of antenna reflector sized 65cm or below Small, consisting of antenna reflector sized 100cm or below Medium, consisting of antenna reflector sized 135cm or below

3.2.8 Terminal shall include uninterruptable power supply (UPS) sustaining 20 minutes of runtime without mains power while operating at maximum terminal power loading.

3.2.9 Terminal shall support operations in conditions with 30 miles per hour (MPH) sustaining winds.

3.3 Terrestrial Transport

Terrestrial transport services shall be provided under STO-3.

4.0 Lifecycle Management

4.0.1 The Offeror shall present an approach for lifecycle management (on-going maintenance and operational support services, customer care and help desk support to include electromagnetic interference (EMI)/radio frequency interference (RFI) resolution support, and training). This shall include all hardware/software elements and ancillary items necessary for maintaining an operational availability.

The Offeror shall discuss the approach to minimize mean time between failure and mean time to repair.

4.0.2 The Offeror shall provide Original Manufacturer Equipment Documentation for each terminal suite.

4.0.3 The Offeror shall identify long-lead item procurement risks and provide mitigation. The Offeror shall address warranty service, spare parts, and field support.

4.0.4 The Offeror shall discuss maintenance support for all sites to include the replacement of defective components, upgrades to include commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technology insertion, and any software updates, as required.

5.0 Additional Considerations

5.0.1 STO 2 is subject to the performance requirements annotated in the contract Performance Work Statement.

5.0.2 The Offeror shall provide turnkey VSAT transmission capability that includes all necessary software, hardware, service and maintenance support to all locations. The Offeror shall be fully responsible for assuring operational availability of the system.

5.0.3 The managed network services shall include space segment, teleport, and terrestrial components as necessary to ensure a complete end-to-end communications solution between the deployed user terminal and the MCEN. All equipment delivered as part of the complex satellite solution shall be new equipment.

5.0.4 Space segment coverage shall support requirements as defined in 3.1. The Offeror shall provide a service map demonstrating coverage area for each antenna and service type.

5.0.5 The Offeror shall develop and provide configuration documentation and transmission plans.

5.0.6 The Offeror will be required to meet Federal and DoD Information Assurance requirements for a Moderate Impact Information System.

5.0.7 Contractor shall meet service metrics:

Satellite Availability 99.999% availability over past 30 days

TDMA Links 99.5% availability Commercial Teleport 99.95% availability Terrestrial Transport 99.995% availability Terrestrial Transport 10^-10 Bit Error Rate Terrestrial Transport 300 ms one-way latency CFE platform 100,000 hours MTBF CFE ancillary 100,000 hours MTBF VSAT Terminal 100,000 hours MTBF

Sample Task Order (STO) #2