Day Two: Friday 30th April 2010

08.30 Coffee & Registration

09.00 Chairman’s Introduction And Welcome

Ian Whitworth
Head, Communications and Information Systems Engineering Group
Cranfield University

09.10 Multilateral Interoperability Programme: Meeting The Interoperability Challenge

  • History of the MIP programme
  • Recent changes in the MIP programme
  • MIP in operational use
  • Plans for the future

Lieutenant Colonel Guy (Pudge) Townend
Chairman
NATO MIP Program Management Group

09.50 Multinational Interoperability Programme Implementation For Netherlands Armed Forces

  • Achieving international interoperability of Command and Control
  • Information Systems
  • Delivering at an appropriate level to support combined and joint operations
  • Challenges in meeting NATO standards for architectures and hardware
  • Implementation, adoption and stability of MIP

Major Hans Baltzer
DMO Division Land Systems C2 Support Centre
Royal Netherlands Army

10.30 Coffee & Networking Break

11.00 Overcoming NATO Interoperability Challenges

  • Defining challenges of wireless and tactical networks for NATO nations
  • Opportunities for interoperability through SDR technology
  • Future plans and objectives

Gerard Elzinga
Staff Officer Communications Networks
NATO Headquarters C3 Staff

11.40 Intelligence Spectrum Management For Tactical Communications

  • Mechanisms for sharing bandwidth
  • Mechanisms for using spectrum released by digital TV
  • Military applications for domestic frequencies
  • Development for intelligence spectrum management in tactical communications

Ian Whitworth
Head, Communications and Information Systems Engineering Group
Cranfield University

12.20 Networking Lunch

13.30 Communication & Information Modules For Expeditionary Operations

  • Brigade and battalion level modules
  • Communications and tactical C2 systems
  • Interoperability within expeditionary operations

Milan Snajder
Head of Research, Air Force Research Institute Project Manager
Czech MoD

14.10 Tactical Communications In Advanced Systems For Asymmetric Operations

  • System analysis of emerging battlefields: irregular threats and runtime reaction on them
  • Overoperability versus interoperability organization of dynamic and adaptable armies
  • The role and peculiarities of tactical communications in distributed robotized systems
  • Formal expression of asymmetric scenarios and their collective execution by the force mix
  • Providing global awareness, self-analysis, and self-recovery in hostile environments
  • Automated up to fully automatic command and control in critical situations

Peter Sapaty
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

14.50 Coffee & Networking Break

15.20 Using Current Technology To Maximise Radio Equipment Lifespan And Flexibility

  • The purpose and role of Software Defined Radio (SDR)
  • Waveform development and testing to maximise waveform lifespan now
  • Waveform development and testing to maximise equipment flexibility now
  • Achieving "plug-and-play" via the SCA in the future
  • Limitations of current SDR technology: Hardware versus software

Anna Squires
Commercial Director
Etherstack

16.00 Panel Discussion: Delivery Of Cognitive Radio: Challenges And Timelines

  • Increasing spectrum efficiency
  • Adaptable to transmission parameters based on location
  • Compatibility with legacy systems and SDR

Led by

Ian Whitworth
Head, Communications and Information Systems Engineering Group
Cranfield University

16.40 Chairman’s Close And End Of Conference

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