5. MECS2 STO-2 TechSpec.xlsx

This document contains a technical specification for a United States Marine Corps satellite communications services procurement. The Marine Corps requires transponded bandwidth capacity and end-to-end managed services leveraging all available satellite transmission frequency bands, cellular services, and access methods to lease or purchase multiple service models and managed services solutions. Coverage is needed globally across five regions in multi-orbit and multi-band configurations. High capacity and mobile spread spectrum services are required to provide worldwide internet protocol backhaul from commercial gateways to the Marine Corps Enterprise Network through government entry points and to the Department of Defense Information Network, including program management support, bandwidth management and analysis tools, and access to satellite network monitoring tools via secure and non-secure networks. Terminal equipment specifications, link parameters, and planned network connectivity details are provided.