- Day 1
- 8.30 Registration & Coffee
- 9.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks
- Alan Carr, Member, Wireless Technology Practice, PA Consulting.
- 9.10 KEYNOTE ADDRESS DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE TRANSFORMATIONAL SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT
- DoD present and future operational environment - a year down the line: what has changed?
- DoD growing spectrum requirements
- Spectrum challenges
- Spectrum reform initiatives
- Technology solutions and role of cognitive radios
- Key DoD spectrum initiatives
- The way ahead - where will we be in 10 years?
- Badri Younes, Director, Spectrum Management, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Department of Defense, US.
- 9.50 SPECIAL ADDRESS THE NEED FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES - SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIO
- Italian MoD approach and perspective on SDR
- Project overview
- Procurement strategies and opportunities
- The challenges and opportunities presented by adapting technologies
- Looking ahead to near future trials
- Major General Pietro Finocchio, General Director, General Directorate for Telecommunications, IT and Advanced Technologies, Ministry of Defence, Italy.
- 10.30 Morning Coffee
- 11.00 MULTI-NATIONAL INTEROPERABILITY
- NATO requirements of SDR - how are they evolving?
- NATO interoperability requirements
- Multi-national collaboration
- Waveform portability
- Security considerations
- The way ahead - NATO current and future requirements
- Dr Michael Street, Senior Scientist, CIS Division, N A T O C3 Agency.
- 11.40 THE FRENCH APPROACH TO SDR
- Project status
- Studying test results to fine-tune future requirements
- Long term project goals
- The route taken to get there
- Julien Fauquet , Long Term Projects Manager, DGA/DSA/SPOTI.
- 12.20 Networking Lunch
- 1.50 APPLICATIONS OF THE JTRS SCA IN MILITARY RADIOS
- Harris SDR solutions - scalable, reusable and secure
- Key SCA concepts, architectural considerations and technologies
- Key mission and vision
- Privately developed JTRS solutions, stimulus for competition and technology insertion
- Wave form porting using the SCA - it’s all about the applications
- Information assurance and security permeate military radio architectures
- Mark Turner, Director, Software and Secure Products Engineering, Harris Corporation / R F Comm.
- 2.30 LESSONS LEARNED ON THE FINNISH SDR DEMONSTRATOR PROGRAMME
- Fulfilling national military requirements whilst enabling interoperability
- Mr Pekka Heikkinen, Program Manager, Elektrobit.
- 3.10 Afternoon Tea
- 3.40 SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIO IN THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION
- Dr Jorge Pereira, Principal Scientific Officer, European Commission.
- 4.20 DUTCH PERSPECTIVE ON SDR
- brief introduction TNO
- SDR technology space; definitions
- User domains and requirements
- Regulatory aspects
- Current TNO activities and intentions in this area
- Bram van den Ende, Senior Project Manager Wireless Communications, TNO, Netherlands.
- 5.00 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
- Alan Carr, Member, Wireless Technology Practice, PA Consulting.
- Day 2
- 8.30 Registration & Coffee
- 9.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks
- Alan Carr, Member, Wireless Technology Practice, PA Consulting.
- 9.10 MINIMIZE RISK IN SDR DEVELOPMENT
- Considering key factors contributing to risk in SDR development, employing strategies to reduce risk
- The SCA ecosystem
- Development process and environment
- Automation
- Process Scaleability
- Adapting to change requirements, skill resources, standards and technologies
- Dr Francis Bordeleau, CEO, Zeligsoft.
- 9.50 AN OVERVIEW OF SDR STANDARDS AT OMG
- Developing specifications supporting the development, deployment, operation and maintenance of SDRs
- SDR activities within the OMG
- The Software-Based Communication Domain Task Force
- SBC specifications and Model-Driven Architecture (MDA)
- Re-targeting specifications for different deployment platforms and hardware architectures
- Applications to JTRS
- Andrew Watson, Vice President and Technical Director, Object Management Group.
- 10.30 Morning Coffee
- 11.00 DEVELOPING INTEROPERABLE SECURE COMMUNICATIONS
- Providing interoperable communications for Emergency operations
- Network management
- Spectrum management and co-ordination
- Avoiding spectrum interference
- The importance of secure communications in military emergency operations
- Viability of new technology
- Dr Patrick White, Director, Wireless Network Security, Stevens Institute Of Technology.
- 11.40 SPECIAL PANEL DISCUSSION WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? THE FUTURE OF SDR
- Alan Carr, Member, Wireless Technology Practice, PA Consulting.
- Steve Bernier, Project Leader, Software Defined Radio, Communications Research Centre.
- Andrew Watson, Vice President and Technical Director, Object Management Group.
- Konstantinos Tigkos, Defence Market Analyst, Frost and Sullivan.
- 12.20 Networking Lunch
- 1.50 DUTCH SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIO PROGRAMME
- Software Defined Radio - status and policies
- Ali Hoosseinzadah , Senior Process Engineer , Ministry of Defence, Netherlands.
- 2.30 LATEST BREAKTHROUGHS IN SDR DEVELOPMENT USING MODEL-DRIVEN TECHNIQUES
- Recent advances in SDR programming techniques - greatly increasing developer productivity
- Model driven development
- Generative programming and agile software development techniques
- Accelerating SDR Development
- Managing Complexity
- Operational Benefits
- Dominick Paniscotti, Vice President, Engineering, SDR Products, PrismTech.
- 3.10 Afternoon Tea
- 3.40 SCA MYTHS AND REALITY
- SCA overview
- Is the SCA to slow
- Is the SCA to fast?
- Can the SCA run on small devices?
- Future directions for SCA implementation
- Steve Bernier, Project Leader, Software Defined Radio, Communications Research Centre.
- 4.20 SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIO: THE CONVERGENCE OF COMMERCIAL AND MILITARY MARKETS AND TECHNOLOGIES
- Is it really going to deliver?
- European SDR programmes and business opportunities overview
- Market dynamics, what we should expect and why in the market for SDR
- Cost issues and considerations regarding procurement and deployment
- Working with what we ‘got’ and what we ‘need’
- Konstantinos Tigkos, Defence Market Analyst, Frost and Sullivan.
- 5.00 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
- Alan Carr, Member, Wireless Technology Practice, PA Consulting.
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