2015Marriott Hotel, Prague, Czech Republic

Mobile DeployableCommunications

5th & 6th

FEB

CHAIRMAN:

KEY SPEAKERS INCLUDE:Brigadier General Jan Kase, Director of CISAgency, Czech Ministry of Defence

Michael McCarthy, Director of Operationsand Program Manager, US ARMY

Colonel Jan van de Pol, Head of Systems,Applications, Training & Simulation, NLDDefence Materiel Organisation

Giuseppe Curro, Head of TrainingManagement, NATO Communications andInformation Systems School

Justin O’Neill, Area Marketing Manager,Comtech Systems, Inc

Krasimir Yordanov, Chief IT & SecurityBranch, EU Military Staff

Paul Hutchings, Capture Director, Thales

Patrick Heuline, Head of marketing, MobileCommunications Systems, Thales

Colonel (Ret’d) Nigel Beer, ManagingConsultant, PA Consulting Group

WHY ATTEND THIS EVENT:• Discover strategies to overcome ever-present

threats such as cyber attacks• Hear about the potential of information superiority in

European security & defence• Listen to operational case studies, allowing you to

develop your communication systems• Evaluate and discuss the US Army Mobility Project• Access new ideas and analyse the latest

technology improving military communications

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B: Enabling SOA in the tactical domainHosted by: NATO STO Group - NATO IST -118

13:00 - 18:00

A: Tactical Communications OverviewHosted by: Dr. Clayton Stewart, Visiting Professor, University College London

08:00 - 12:30

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8:30 Registration & Coffee

9:00 Chairman's Opening RemarksNigel Beer, Managing Consultant, PA Consulting Group

HOST NATION ADDRESS 9:10 Quo vadit exercitus communicans

• Current state of the Czech Signal Corps• CIS services in support of operations• DCM – Czech unit as a part of 3rd NATO signal battalion• Future challengesBrigadier General Jan Kase, Director of CIS agency, Czech Ministry of Defence

INTEROPERABILITY

9:50 CIS in the Land Environment – An Industry Perspective• Delivering in partnership• Managing Transformation• Benefits realisation• Technology trendsPaul Hutchings, Capture Director, ThalesPatrick Heuline, Head of marketing, Mobile Communications Systems,Thales

10:30 Netherlands Armed Forces - Lessons learned from developing deployable networks in house

• NLD Joint IT Command organization• NLD Deployable Network Infrastructure• What are the overarching design principles?• What are the challenges for the MoD as System Integrator of off-the-

shelf and custom building blocks?• What are the challenges of harmonizing Green (operational) &

White (business) IT?Colonel Jan van de Pol, Head Systems Applications Training andSimulation, MOD Joint IT Command

11:10 Morning Coffee

11:40 Mobile Deployable CIS in support of EU Operations • Overview of the EU’s “Deployable Package” for C2 in theatre• Operational feedback and lessons learned from EU Crisis

management exercise Multi-Layer 14 • Future timelines for system development, and key goals for

deployment Krasimir Yordanov, Chief IT & Security Branch, EU Military Staff

12:20 Experience with the Operation of Mobile CIS System of Slovak Armed Forces

• Introduction• Mission and Tasks• Capabilities of Deployable CIS System• Upgrading Existing Communication System to Achieve Next-

Generation Operability• Operational Concept of the Mobile CIS System• Mobile CIS System – Deploy ExperienceMajor Aurel Sabó, Deputy Commander, Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic

13:00 Networking Lunch

14:20 Tactical Communications Overview• CIS services in support of operations• Interoperability challenges• Mobile Deployable CIS • European Secure SOftware defined Radio - occar• Networking and SATCOM• Troposcatter systems • Information Superiority in European Security & Defence Dr. Clayton Stewart, Visiting Professor, University College London

NETWORKING AND SATCOM

15:00 SOA in tactical environment• SOA benefits in support for mission threads• Tactical environment in FMN• Current state of research in the area of tactical SOAJoanna Sliwa, Head of C4I Systems, Military Communications Institute

15:40 Afternoon Tea

16:10 Troposcatter systems • High capacity, over the horizon communications without the need

for satellites, and with no recurring costs for usage• Low latency (typically less than 15 ms), particularly relevant to

missile defense• Lower probability of intercept than satcom• Works in areas without satellite coverage• Replaces multiple LOS repeater links with a single tropo system

(reduces force protection, logistics requirements, and sustainmentcosts, while freeing assets for other uses)

• Comtech is the exclusive supplier of tropo for the US military• Comtech modems are fielded in over 90% of the modern, high

data-rate modems deployed globallyJustin O’Neill, Area Marketing Manager, Comtech Systems, Inc

16:50 Information Superiority in European Security & Defence – vision or dream?

• Situation of Information and Communication Technology supplies inEuropean Forces

• What can we learn from the civil world?• The vision and its success factorsMichael Sieber, Head of Unit, Information Superiority, European Defence Agency

17:30 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One

17:40 Drinks Reception Hosted by

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8:30 Registration & Coffee

9:00 Chairman's Opening Remarks

Nigel Beer, Managing Consultant, PA Consulting Group

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

9:10 Key developments: US Army Mobility Project

• Changing the culture to accept the technology

• Project methodology

• Goals and objectives, successes and set-backs

Michael McCarthy, Director of Operations and Program Manager,

US ARMY

9:50 Assessing DCIS as essential element of C4ISR and Spectrum

Management for DCIS assets

• Introduction to NATO DCIS elements

• NATO DCIS as component of C4ISR

• Theatre Spectrum Management concepts

• Frequency Management for DCIS assets

Giuseppe Curro, Head of Training Management, NATO

Communications and Information Systems School

10:30 Morning Tea

11:00 Examining the trend and implications of personal electronic devices

on satellite-based mobile deployable communications

• What is the demand for deployable satellite-based

communications?

• Evaluating the demand by segment, equipment type and mobile

platform

• Assessing the impact of High-Throughput Satellites (HTS) on mobile

communications

Claude Rousseau, Research Director, Northern Sky Research

OPERATING DIGITAL APPLICATIONS

11:40 Methods and techniques in detection of cyber threats in deployable

communications Modelling of cyber attacks

• Network traffic analysis

• Adaptation of artificial intelligence metrics

• Cyber defence laboratory – ongoing MCI activity

Bartosz Jasiul, Head of Information Assurance Section,

Military Communications Institute

12:20 Networking Lunch

13:40 Lesson learned from the CoNSIS field trail for the tactical area in future

Coalition Networks

• Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

• Radio to Router Communication

• Multitopology Routing

• Protected Core Networking

Peter Sevenich, Projects Network Architecture, MANET and ConSIS,

Fraunhofer Institute

14:20 The ESSOR Programme

• ESSOR Programme Overview

• ESSOR Perspectives on SDR

• ESSOR Architecture

• ESSOR HDRWF

• Status, Perspectives and Conclusions

Philippe Margot, ESSOR Programme Manager, OCCAR

Christian Serra, ESSOR SAS Technical Director, OCCAR

15:00 Afternoon Tea

15:30 White Space Technology: Technical Challenges, Applications

and Issues

• White space Technology: Present and Future.

• How technology work and what benefit it can bring to mobile

operators?

• How primary users will remain protected and the future of spectrum

sensing.

• Carrier-aggregation and journey towards 5G

• Current market situation of white space technology in UK.

Kamran Arshad, Senior Lecturer in Communications Engineering,

University of Greenwich

16:10 IST-118 SOA recommendations for disadvantaged grids in the tactical

domain: Goals, progress and preliminary results

• Goals of IST-118

• Progress and chosen experimentation directions

• Preliminary results from IST-118 research and MDC workshop

• Conclusions and (near) future expectations

Peter-Paul Meiler, Senior Scientist in Networked Organisations,

Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research

16:50 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two

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HALF-DAY PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP AWednesday 4th February 2015

Marriott Hotel, Prague, Czech Republic8:00 - 12:30

Tactical Communications Overview

Workshop overview:This workshop will cover the general area of military tacticalcommunications, including voice and data. Variouspropagation modes will be considered including line-of-sight, troposcatter, satcom, and ionospheric skywave. Wewill also consider anti-jam techniques such as frequencyhopping and direct sequence spread spectrum. Thetreatment will also include data links for ISR platforms.

Who should attend?At the completion of this Tactical Communications workshopthe attendees will:• Have a deeper understanding of the operational

principles and underlying technologies of modern tacticalcomm systems.

• Have a wider understanding of the complex linkagesbetween technology, people, process, tools, businessbenefit and balance of investment decisions.

• Understand how making significant investment in relevantS&T can lead to more effective defence systems.

• Be able to better articulate the relationships betweenunderlying technologies and tactical comm systems.

• Be able to better execute your responsibilities within thewider communications arena.

Agenda8:00 Registration and Coffee8:30 Introduction to Workshop

Host Clayton Stewart, Visiting ProfessorDepartment of Electronic and ElectricalEngineering, University College London

8:40 Introduction of Workshop Participants8:50 Overview of tactical communications systems9:40 Exploring Robust Communications Systems10:30 Coffee Break10:50 Propagation modes11:30 Case Studies in tactical comms12:20 Concluding Roundtable Discussion &

Closing Remarks12:30 End of Workshop

About the workshop leader:Dr Clayton Stewart• Currently: Visiting Professor Electronic and Electrical

Engineering• 2007-2013: Technical Director Office of Naval Research

Global• 1994-2007: Corporate Vice President and General

Manager of Reconnaissance and SurveillanceOperation

• 1990-1994: Associate Professor of Electrical andComputer Engineering and

• Associate Director of Centre of Excellence inCommand, Control, Communications, and Intelligence,George Mason University,

• 1987-1990: Program Manager Artificial Ionospheric Mirrorover the horizon radar system.

• 1984-1987: Principal Investigator Signal Processing,Sperry Corporate

• Technology Centre, performed research on multi-sensorfusion, radar systems, electronic warfare, and signalprocessing

• 1982-1984: Deputy Director Tactical Systems Division, Air Force Studies and Analyses, the Pentagon,performed analyses of C4ISR systems including JSTARS,Mk XV IFF, JTIDS, Have Quick

• 1978-1982: Associate Professor Electrical Engineering, US Air Force Academy

• 1964-1974: USAF officer

About UCL Engineering:UCL Engineering delivers research and training across allaspects of the modern world. Previous studies and workhere have produced rapid vaccine productions, fibre-opticcommunications and the infrastructure of the internet, andwe continue to deliver world-changing innovations. Ourstudents and staff are drawn from across the globe, as areour academic and business partners. Our teachingprogrammes focus on subjects that have an impact on theworld around us, while their content is led by the bestinternational research. Members of the faculty use their skillsacross Engineering's institutes and centres, within UCL, andin the wider world.

HALF-DAY PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP BWednesday 4th February 2015

Marriott Hotel, Prague, Czech Republic13:00 - 18:00

Enabling SOA in the tacticaldomain

Workshop overview:The NATO STO group IST-118’s title and aim is to giveSOA recommendations for disadvantaged grids inthe tactical domain. This workshop gives anoverview of the group’s work, covering centralaspects pertaining to enabling SOA in the tacticaldomain.

Why should you attend?The workshop gives an overview of SOA and thechallenges related to applying this paradigm intactical networks. Anyone interested in learningabout recent developments within this area canbenefit from attending the workshop, which willcover the state-of-the-art of selected topics withinthis area. Special emphasis is on the relevance toNATO and FMN/NFIP.

Agenda13:00 Registration and coffee13:30 Welcome

Introduction to workshopIntroducing the participants from IST-118

13:40 Opening speech14:00 Overview of NATO core enterprise

services and NATO C3 Taxonomy14:30 Status of selected core enterprise

services in the tactical domain15:45 Coffee break16:15 Collaboration services – video

streaming in resource-constrained networks

17:15 Emulating large-scale tactical networks17:45 Cross-layer optimizations18:00 End of workshop

About the Organisation:NATO IST -118 SOA recommendations for disadvantaged grids inthe tactical domain” is a Research Task Group(RTG) of NATO Science and TechnologyOrganization with members from 6 countries (NLD –lead nation, NOR, POL, GBR, GER, USA). The goal ofthe RTG is to identify the types of information thatare exchanged at the tactical level and use theseto do experimenting and testing with possible SOAimprovements. Based on the results, the goal is toprovide guidance (best practices) to make SOAapplicable on battlefield disadvantaged grids, inthe form of a Tactical SOA Profile.

Workshop Leaders:• Dr Joanna Sliwa• Ms Trude H. Bloebaum• Dr Frank T. Johnsen• Dr Qi Wang• Dr Jose Maria Alcaraz-Calero• Mr Norman Janse• Mr Ian Owens• Mr. Peter Paul Meiler

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