Military Satellite Communications Systems Wing

Military Satellite Communications Systems Wing
Military Satellite Communications Systems Wing emblem
Active	19??–Present
Country	United States
Branch	United States Air Force
Part of	Air Force Space Command Space and Missile Systems Center
Garrison/HQ	Los Angeles Air Force Base, California

The Military Satellite Communications Systems Wing (MCSW) is a United States Air Force organization headquartered at Los Angeles Air Force Base, California. It is one of several wings and other units that make up the Air Force Space Command's Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC).

The MCSW develops, acquires, and sustains space-enabled, global communications capabilities to support national objectives.

MCSW has five groups and one squadron which deliver three primary Satellite Communications (SATCOM) product lines:

The Protected Communications Group provides the United States Department of Defense (DoD) survivable, global, secure, protected, jam-resistant communications for high priority military ground, sea, and air assets. The group provides operations and sustainment support to the on-orbit Milstar Communications satellite constellation. In addition, the group executes the $6.7B Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) and $1.2B Enhanced Polar SATCOM (EPS) programs. The user equipment or terminals for the DoD protected communication systems in the currently operational Milstar Command Post Terminal (CPT) and $3.2B Family of Advanced Beyond-Line-of-Sight Terminals (FAB-T) development program.

The Wideband Communication Group provides worldwide, high-volume, voice and data communications to the warfighter. The group provides operations and sustainment support for the on-orbit Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) constellation. In addition the group executes the $1.9B Wideband Global SATCOM system (WGS) and $0.9B Global Broadcast Service (GBS). Wideband communication terminals include the Ground Multi-band Terminal (GMT), the High Data Rate - Radio Frequency (HDR-RF) ground terminal program which is an evolutionary upgrade to the GMT, and the FAB-T Increment 2.