NSC-T provides: JNN-N training support, remote troubleshooting, soldier training

Army Communicator, Fall, 2006 by Josh Davidson

One of a NSC-T's biggest challenges is getting Soldiers to understand linear polarity, he said. Linear polarity occurs when satellites broadcast their signals with the waveform being sent from the antenna either in the vertical plane or the horizontal plane. The process allows the satellite to transmit twice the amount of channels in the same amount of bandwidth. During the process, the signals from the opposite polarity are attenuated enough so that they don't interfere with each other. Operating in a commercial satellite environment is challenging to a Soldier who has never been exposed to such an atmosphere, White said.

Product Manager JNN-N is within Project Manager Tactical Radio Communications Systems. PM TRCS is within the Army's Program Executive Office for Command, Control and Communications Tactical, headquartered at Fort Monmouth, N.J.

Dale White is the chief of the newly established NSC-T and is a retired Army First Sergeant with 21 years of service. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Maryland. He has been a Department of the Army civilian at Fort Gordon, Ga., since 1995.

Josh Davidson of Symbolic Systems, Inc. is a news writer supporting the Program Executive Office, Command, Control, Communications Tactical Chief Information Office in Fort Monmouth, N.J. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism/ Professional Writing from the College of New Jersey (formerly Trenton State College). He previously worked as a municipal beat reporter for the Ocean County Observer, a daily newspaper owned by Gannett Newspapers Inc.

ACRONYM QUICKSCAN

CONUS--Continental United States

DISA--Defense Information Systems Agency

DISN--Defense Information Systems Network

FDMA--Frequency Division Multiple Access

IP--Internet Protocol

JNN--Joint Network Node

JNN-N--Joint Network Node-Network

MBCOTM--Mounted Battle Command-on-the-Move

MF-TDMA--Multi-Frequency Time Division Multiple Access

MRT--Master Reference Terminal NETCOM--Network Enterprise Technology Command

NSC-T--Network Service Center-Training

OEF--Operation Enduring Freedom

OIF--Operation Iraqi Freedom

PEO C3T--Program Executive Office, Command, Control, Communications Tactical

PM TRCS--Project Manager, Tactical Radio Communications Systems

SME--Subject Matter Expert

SIGCEN--Signal Center

TDMA--Time Division Multiple Access

TTP--Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures