- DAY 1
- 8.30 Registration & Coffee
- 9.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks
- Phil White, Lead, Military Radio Systems, PA Consulting Group.
- 9.10 Programme Update - Italian Future Capabilities
- Working with industry to develop a next generation radio
- Latest developments of research national contracts
- The Italian participation in the international SDR programs
- Further planned projects to drive forward national requirements and expertise in military SDR
- Brigadier General Ugo Manetti, Director, International Programs Coordination Office, General Directorate for Telecommunications, IT and Advanced Technologies, Ministry of Defence, Italy.
- 9.50 Finnish Approach from the National SDR Demonstrator Project to the Multinational SDR Prototype Programme
- Military requirements for future radio communications systems
- Recent results of the Finnish SDR studies
- Challenges and prospects of SDR - a Finnish view
- The way ahead after the Finnish SDR demonstrator programme
- Major Jari Seppala, Research Co-ordinator, Electronics and Information Technology Division, Finnish Defence Forces Technical Research Centre.
- Heikki Rantanen, Principal Scientist, Finnish Defence Forces Technical Research Centre.
- 10.30 Morning Coffee
- 11.00 Using the SCA with DSP's and FGPA's
- Review of the SCA deployment mechanisms
- How are DSP's and FPGA's different from GPP's?
- How can an SCA application use a DSP/FPGA?
- Steve Bernier, Project Leader, Software Defined Radio, Communications Research Centre, Canada.
- 11.40 SDR Market and Technology Trends Creating a New SDR Ecosystem
- Global SDR market overview and standards development efforts to support national and international requirements
- SDR hardware and software enabling technologies accelarating SDR adoption
- The emerging SDR products and supplier ecosystem that will speed deployment and lower total cost of ownership of Software Defined Radios
- Dominick Paniscotti, General Manager, Software Defined Radio Products, PrismTech.
- 12.20 Networking Lunch
- 1.50 Transforming Spectrum Management to Support Future Net-Centric Operations
- Defense spectrum environment
- Global spectrum challenges
- Net-centric spectrum management vision
- Spectrum management transformation
- Paige R. Atkins, Director, Defence Spectrum Organization, Defence Information Systems Agency (DISA), USA.
- 2.30 Spectrum Management in the UK
- Spectrum space needs in the UK
- Initiatives for freeing up spectrum space
- Spectrum regulation
- Jim Nixon, Head, Defence Spectrum Management, Directorate of Command & Battlespace Management J6, Ministry of Defence, UK.
- 3.10 Afternoon Tea
- 3.40 Ongoing Operations for Establishing an International Commercial Standard
- Drivers for accepted SDR standards
- SDR Forum and Object Management Group (OMG) - how are they working together?
- Building an international commercial standard based on the SCA - current status
- Perspectives and contributions from the various ITU regions
- Impact on the SDR Certification aspects
- Christian Serra, Chairman, SDR Forum.
- 4.20 Proven Techniques for Commercial SDR Waveform Development
- Development under a commercial business model
- Key role of specialist design practices, expertise and tools in reducing development and maintenance costs
- Designing to maximise software reusability, upgradeability and portability
- Significance of SDR standardisation
- Real-world commercial examples
- Annalies Squires, Product Development Director, Etherstack.
- 5.00 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
- 5.10 Post Conference Drinks Reception Sponsored by Etherstack
- DAY 2
- 8.30 Registration & Coffee
- 9.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks
- Phil White, Lead, Military Radio Systems, PA Consulting Group.
- 9.10 Tactical Radios - An Operational Insight
- Technologies used
- Requirements for SDR
- Experiences and lessons learned
- Bob Wilson, Deputy Project Manager, Command Posts, US Army.
- 9.50 OMG Software Radio Standards Overview
- Middleware specifications for software radio - CORBA and CORBA/e
- General-purpose modelling languages used in SDR - UML & SysML
- UML profile for Software Radio
- UML profile for Modelling & Analysis of Real-time & Embedded systems (MARTE)
- UML profile for DODAF & MODAF
- Model-Driven Architecture
- Andrew Watson, Vice President and Technical Director, Object Management Group, USA.
- 10.30 Morning Coffee
- 11.00 The European Dimension in SDR
- EDA, as the venue for coordination and exchange of information between the various European initiatives
- Catalyst of European Standardisation approach including close relation with the Commission
- Initiator of the development of an European network of T&E capabilities for SDR certification: an example of European Defence Test & Evaluation Base rationalisation
- Michel Gari, Principal Officer, Policy, European Defence Agency.
- 11.40 Air Combat Command Update
- Air Force family of advanced beyond-line-of-sight terminal (FAB-T) programme update
- Operational requirements
- Technological and design challenges
- Scott Hepburn, FAB-T Chief Engineer, Mitre Corporation, USA.
- 12.20 Networking Lunch
- 1.50 Perspective on SDR and CR R&T Stakes for the European Wireless Commercial Industry
- Some commercial business cases
- Technology and associated standardisation stakes
- Cross-domain standardisation approaches - the Transceiver case
- Eric Nicollet, Embedded SDR Architecture Specialist, Thales Communications.
- 2.30 The Practical Realisation of SDR
- Discussion of Astrium's strong practical SDR capability
- Illustrations of practical experience of SCA for SDR
- Highlights of lessons learned from the use of reference implementations
- Multi-purpose / multi-mode illustrations of secure, robust and high data rate waveforms
- Demonstrations of platform reconfigurability and portability
- Peter Dingley, Head of Skynet 5 PMS Project, Astrium Services.
- 3.10 SDR in Commercial and Civil Systems - Is there something to offer the Military?
- The state of the art in SDR in commercial products
- Commercial SDR standards and thinking
- Comparison with military SDR
- What benefits and lessons learned can be cross-fertilised between the two camps
- Peter Relph, Principal Consultant, PA Consulting Group.
- 3.50 Chairman’s Closing Remarks, Afternoon Tea and Close of Conference
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