Army Techniques Publication ATP 6-02.54 Techniques For Satellite Communications June 2017 ATP 6-02.54, Techniques for Satellite Communications, identifies and explains the role of SATCOM as a part of the Army's transport layer for connection to Defense Information Systems Network (DISN) services. ATP 6-02.54 expands on the doctrinal foundations and tenets found in FM 6-02, Signal Support to Operations. The vision for the Department of Defense Information Network-Army (DODIN-A) is the employment of an end-to-end network that provides assured global mission command and enables the Army to fight and win in a contested and congested operating environment. This network seamlessly integrates services and capabilities from strategic to tactical echelons and enables all warfighting functions. The network is a warfighting platform that enables the mission command system to integrate joint combined arms and all elements of combat power; support leaders' ability to understand, visualize, and describe the operational environment, problems, and approaches to solving them; support commanders' ability to make decisions and direct action toward a desired end state; assess understanding of the problem and adequacy of the operational approach and subsequent plans and level of progress. The network is tailorable and will adapt based on phases of the operation to provide assured mission command in home station, en route, and in deployed environments. Deployed environments include training, exercises, security cooperation engagement, initial entry, and combined arms maneuver, which may employ minimal to robust force packages requiring the network to adjust to provide appropriate services at the point of need under all conditions. We will seek to provide services at point of need and, through home station mission command, reduce the deployed footprint and operational risk. The ability to predict the actions of enemies and adversaries enables proactive defense and assures access to critical data and the security of our networks and systems, which is essential to our mission success. The network must embrace common standards from a joint and multi-national perspective that allow the addition of capabilities and systems while reducing, not increasing complexity of the network. The network must provide an advantage and not a burden while providing enhanced speed and agility to our warfighting formations. The SATCOM network capabilities provided by Signal Soldiers play a vital role in supporting Army operations by providing an information advantage. Today's Army demands the reliable network transport provided by SATCOM to receive information for situational understanding necessary to conduct Army operations. Network transport and information services is a core competency of the Signal Corps. Planners integrate satellite assets to support the commander and the operational mission plan. SATCOM capabilities are vital to increasing the Army's combat power and that of its joint, interorganizational, and multinational partners. As the evolution of capabilities make our networks less complex and more defensible, we will evolve our doctrine to describe the current and effective employment of our networks and systems in a congested and contested operating environment.