SMi Group's 8th annual Mobile Deployable Communications conference & exhibition is moving to Prague in February 2015

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SMi presents its 8th annual conference on
Mobile Deployable
Communications
5th & 6th
FEB
Marriott Hotel, Prague, Czech Republic 2015
CHAIRMAN:
Colonel (Ret’d) Nigel Beer, Managing
Consultant, PA Consulting Group
KEY SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Brigadier General Jan Kase, Director of CIS
Agency, Czech Ministry of Defence
Michael McCarthy, Director of Operations
and Program Manager, US ARMY
Colonel Jan van de Pol, Head of Systems,
Applications, Training & Simulation, NLD
Defence Materiel Organisation
Giuseppe Curro, Head of Training
Management, NATO Communications and
Information Systems School
Justin O’Neill, Area Marketing Manager,
Comtech Systems, Inc
Krasimir Yordanov, Chief IT & Security
Branch, EU Military Staff
Paul Hutchings, Capture Director, Thales
Patrick Heuline, Head of marketing, Mobile
Communications Systems, Thales
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
PLUS TWO INTERACTIVE HALF-DAY PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS I WEDNESDAY 4TH FEBRUARY 2015
MARRIOTT HOTEL, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
B: Enabling SOA in the tactical domain
Hosted by: NATO STO Group - NATO IST -118
13:00 - 18:00
A: Tactical Communications Overview
Hosted by: Dr. Clayton Stewart, Visiting Professor, University College London
08:00 - 12:30
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2. Mobile Deployable Communications 2015
Day One 5th February 2015 www.mobiledeployable.com
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8:30 Registration & Coffee
9:00 Chairman's Opening Remarks
Nigel 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 challenges
Brigadier 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 trends
Paul Hutchings, Capture Director, Thales
Patrick 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 and
Simulation, 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 Experience
Major 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 SOA
Joanna 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 sustainment
costs, 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 globally
Justin 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 in
European Forces
• What can we learn from the civil world?
• The vision and its success factors
Michael 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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3. www.mobiledeployable.com Day Two 6th February 2015
8:30 Registration & Coffee
9:00 Chairman's Opening Remarks
Mobile Deployable Communications 2015
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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4. HALF-DAY PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP A
Wednesday 4th February 2015
Marriott Hotel, Prague, Czech Republic
In association with:
8:00 - 12:30
Tactical Communications Overview
Workshop overview:
This workshop will cover the general area of military tactical
communications, including voice and data. Various
propagation modes will be considered including line-of-sight,
troposcatter, satcom, and ionospheric skywave. We
will also consider anti-jam techniques such as frequency
hopping and direct sequence spread spectrum. The
treatment will also include data links for ISR platforms.
Who should attend?
At the completion of this Tactical Communications workshop
the attendees will:
• Have a deeper understanding of the operational
principles and underlying technologies of modern tactical
comm systems.
• Have a wider understanding of the complex linkages
between technology, people, process, tools, business
benefit and balance of investment decisions.
• Understand how making significant investment in relevant
S&T can lead to more effective defence systems.
• Be able to better articulate the relationships between
underlying technologies and tactical comm systems.
• Be able to better execute your responsibilities within the
wider communications arena.
Agenda
8:00 Registration and Coffee
8:30 Introduction to Workshop
Host Clayton Stewart, Visiting Professor
Department of Electronic and Electrical
Engineering, University College London
8:40 Introduction of Workshop Participants
8:50 Overview of tactical communications systems
9:40 Exploring Robust Communications Systems
10:30 Coffee Break
10:50 Propagation modes
11:30 Case Studies in tactical comms
12:20 Concluding Roundtable Discussion &
Closing Remarks
12:30 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 Surveillance
Operation
• 1990-1994: Associate Professor of Electrical and
Computer Engineering and
• Associate Director of Centre of Excellence in
Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence,
George Mason University,
• 1987-1990: Program Manager Artificial Ionospheric Mirror
over the horizon radar system.
• 1984-1987: Principal Investigator Signal Processing,
Sperry Corporate
• Technology Centre, performed research on multi-sensor
fusion, radar systems, electronic warfare, and signal
processing
• 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
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5. HALF-DAY PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP B
Wednesday 4th February 2015
Marriott Hotel, Prague, Czech Republic
13:00 - 18:00
Enabling SOA in the tactical
domain
Workshop overview:
The NATO STO group IST-118’s title and aim is to give
SOA recommendations for disadvantaged grids in
the tactical domain. This workshop gives an
overview of the group’s work, covering central
aspects pertaining to enabling SOA in the tactical
domain.
Why should you attend?
The workshop gives an overview of SOA and the
challenges related to applying this paradigm in
tactical networks. Anyone interested in learning
about recent developments within this area can
benefit from attending the workshop, which will
cover the state-of-the-art of selected topics within
this area. Special emphasis is on the relevance to
NATO and FMN/NFIP.
Agenda
13:00 Registration and coffee
13:30 Welcome
Introduction to workshop
Introducing the participants from IST-118
13:40 Opening speech
14:00 Overview of NATO core enterprise
services and NATO C3 Taxonomy
14:30 Status of selected core enterprise
services in the tactical domain
15:45 Coffee break
16:15 Collaboration services – video
streaming in resource-constrained
networks
17:15 Emulating large-scale tactical networks
17:45 Cross-layer optimizations
18:00 End of workshop
About the Organisation:
NATO IST -118
SOA recommendations for disadvantaged grids in
the tactical domain” is a Research Task Group
(RTG) of NATO Science and Technology
Organization with members from 6 countries (NLD –
lead nation, NOR, POL, GBR, GER, USA). The goal of
the RTG is to identify the types of information that
are exchanged at the tactical level and use these
to do experimenting and testing with possible SOA
improvements. Based on the results, the goal is to
provide guidance (best practices) to make SOA
applicable on battlefield disadvantaged grids, in
the 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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