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22nd - 23rd FEBRUARY 2012 | NH DANUBE CITY HOTEL, VIENNA

• Learn about NATO's steps towards

interoperable mobile deployable

communications

• Analyse the latest operational

experiences from both NATO and

national perspectives

• Receive keynote addresses from

Lieutenant General Kurt Herrmann,Director, NATO Communications and

Information Systems Services Agency

(NCSA) and Brigadier General GregoryBrundidge, Director, Command,

Control, Communications and

Warfighting Integration, US European

Command (EUCOM)

• Discuss the current technology being

deployed and what future solutions

industry are providing for the end user

• Address the security challenges facing

military communications experts in the

field

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21st FEBRUARY: PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPSatellite & Satellite-Hybrid Communications Networking Capability and

Civil-Military Inter-Agency Collaboration 13:30 - 18:00

Receive first class presentations from the

following programs and commands:

NATO Communications and InformationSystems Services Agency (NCSA);EUCOM; JAPCC; NATO StandardisationAgency; British Army; US Navy;Norwegian SATCOM Advisory Board

Lieutenant General KurtHerrmann, Director, NATOCommunications andInformation SystemsServices Agency (NCSA)

Brigadier General GregoryBrundidge, Director, Command,Control, Communications andWarfighting Integration,US European Command (EUCOM)

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Colonel Vlastimil Maly, Head of

Communication and Information

Systems Department (K-209),

Czech Republic

Captain Mehmet Cem Kizil,

Turkish Navy, NATO Standardisation

Agency

Colonel Teodor Aldea, Information

Technology and IT Security Branch

Chief, CIS Dept, European Union

Lieutenant Colonel Mike Delorey,

C4ISTAR Branch (Deployable CIS),

NATO Joint Airpower Competence

Centre

Dr. Bharat Doshi, Director of the

Milton S. Eisenhower Research

Center (MERC), Johns Hopkins

University

Carlo Zammariello, Software

Defined Radio Principal Officer,

European Defence Agency

Lieutenant Colonel Gregory Motes,

FA53 Course Leader, US Army

Signal Center

Commander Nigel Chandler,

Fleet Communications Officer,

Navy Command, Royal Navy*

Captain Martin Murray, SO3 G6,

British Army

Kai Tang, Director, SATCOM

Division, PEO C4I, Navy

Communications Program Office,

US Navy*

Michael McCarthy, Director of

Operations, Brigade Modernization

Command, TRADOC, US Army

Trond Hermansen, Norwegian

Armed Forces Director, SATCOM

Advisory Board, CHOD*

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08.30

REGISTRATION & COFFEE

08.50

CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS:

Nigel Beer, Communications & Electronic Systems,

PA Consulting

SESSION 1: INTEROPERABILITY PART ONE

09.00

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Evolution of NATO CIS in ISAF

• The Afghan Mission Network (AMN)

• Functional Area Sub-systems (FAS’es)

• The ISAF DCIS Concept, including the Deployed Services

Topology Service Management Framework

Lieutenant General Kurt Herrmann, Director, NATO

Communications and Information Systems Services

Agency (NCSA)

09.40

Czech CIS Teaching and Training

• Current status in CIS and communications

• Future plans for Czech communications

• The role of the University of Defence

Colonel Vlastimil Maly, Head of Communication and

Information Systems Department (K-209),

Czech Republic Armed Forces

10.20

MORNING COFFEE

SESSION 2: SATCOM FOR DEPLOYABLE COMMS

10.50

SDR Standardization Approach for Commercial, Public Safety

and Military Domain

• SCORED: Addressing Military Software-Defined Radio

capabilities including Cognitive Radio-based Spectrum

Management in the Security and Defence domains

• SDR related capabilities in Europe for military and civilian users

• Operational and technical management of the Radio

Spectrum

Carlo Zammariello, Software Defined Radio Principal

Officer, European Defence Agency

11.30

Securing Worldwide Coverage within Satcom (VSAT) Solutions

• Procuring on-demand satellite capacity in defined areas

• Ensuring the reliability and availability of communications for

Norwegian military units around the world

• Frequency bands and flexibility

Mr. Trond Hermansen, Norwegian Armed Forces Director,

SATCOM Advisory Board, CHOD*

12.10

NETWORKING LUNCH Sponsored by

13.25

VSAT Portable Terminals and EOD Disposal

• Operations and experiences in Afghanistan

• Utilizing high speed terminals in battlespace

• EOD Disposal and the importance of robust comms

Kai Tang, Director, SATCOM Division, PEO C4I, Navy

Communications Program Office, US Navy*

14.05

Securing Commercial SATCOM Networks

• MILSATCOM vs. COMSATCOM

• Ground Infrastructure/Gateways

• Subscriber Devices

• National vs. Coalition Standards

• Future Plans/Strategies

Jackson Kemper, Vice President, Business

Development, Government Programs, Iridium

14.45

AFTERNOON TEA

SESSION 3: NETWORKING AND DATA MANAGEMENT

15.15

Realizing the Promise of Current and Future Mobile Networks

• Achieve a unified experience by integrating multiple access

technologies

• Discover how a converged network platform can be used to

improve service delivery

• Merge existing and future infrastructure to deliver advanced

tactical capabilities

Senior Representative, Cisco

15.55

Resilient, High Data Rate Communication in Tactical

Environments: Needs, Challenges and Potential Solutions

• New ISR and C2 requirements are creating the need for very

high data rate communication between deployed platforms

(ships, planes, ground vehicles, UAVs, satellites, etc.) and

between those platforms and collection/analysis/action

locations

• All weather, high data rate communication at high data rates

require a mix of technologies (e.g. Free Space Optics, MM-

Wave, Lower Frequency RF), each with its challenges and

opportunities

• Advances in these technologies promise a hybrid architecture

to meet these demanding requirements

• Discussion of different scenarios and platforms, requirements,

capabilities of different technologies and a hybrid

architecture

Dr. Bharat Doshi, Director of the Milton S. Eisenhower

Research Center (MERC), Johns Hopkins University

16.35

CHAIRMAN’S CLOSING REMARKS AND END OF DAY ONE

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08.30

RE-REGISTRATION & COFFEE

08.50

CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS:

Nigel Beer, Communications & Electronic Systems,

PA Consulting

SESSION 4: INFORMATION DOMINANCE

AND BATTLESPACE MANAGEMENT

09.00

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Integrated and Deployable Communications

for Rapid Response - A USEUCOM Perspective

• Ensuring information dominance and interoperable C4 systems

• C4I provision for military operations and crisis response

Brigadier General Gregory Brundidge, Director of

Command, Control, Communications and Warfighting

Integration, US European Command

09.40

Information Services – Training for Operations

• Overview of Collective Training Group (including Collective

Training Establishments and key hybrid foundation / mission

specific training events)

• Overview of UK forces mission specific training progression and

how mobile deployable CIS support this

• Challenges of training the ‘operational information

environment’ – replication, simulation or emulation?

• Key mobile deployable CIS – tactical, operational and

strategic capabilities

• Integrating ISTAR – the challenges of providing a homogenous

‘information environment’

• The ‘application space’

Captain Martin Murray, SO3 G6,

British Army

10.20

MORNING COFFEE

SESSION 5: DEPLOYABLE COMMS IN THE AIR

AND MARITIME DOMAINS

10.50

NATO Deployable CIS from the JAPCC Perspective

• Current status

• Addressing NATO’s future DCIS needs

• Procurement strategies for NATO DCIS

Lieutenant Colonel Mike Delorey, C4ISTAR Branch

(Deployable CIS), NATO Joint Airpower Competence

Centre

11.30

Deployable Communications – The Maritime Challenge

• Case study – Coalition maritime operations in the Indian

Ocean and Arabian Gulf

• The tyranny of distance – the enemy of maritime operations

• What is the requirement

• What solutions are currently available and how can industry help

Commander Nigel Chandler, Fleet Communications

Officer, Navy Command, Royal Navy*

12.10

NETWORKING LUNCH

SESSION 6: INTEROPERABILITY PART TWO

13.25

Mobile-Deployable CIS in Support of EU Operations

• CSDP after the Lisbon Treaty

• Mobile CIS in support of CSDP activities

• The EUs deployable CIS package

Colonel Teodor Aldea, Information Technology and IT

Security Branch Chief, CIS Dept, European Union

14.05

The Challenges of Communications Interoperability and

Standardisation Across NATO

• Implementing broader and more innovative deployable

communications using Ka-Band

• Current activities at the agency

• Practical and structural barriers to standardisation

• Plans for the future

Captain Mehmet Cem Kizil, Turkish Navy,

NATO Standardisation Agency

14.45

AFTERNOON TEA

SESSION 7: UTILIZING DIGITAL APPLICATIONS

15.15

Connecting Soldiers to Digital Applications (CSDA) in the

US Army

• Conceptualization by CIO/G6 and ARCIC: Exploring the value

of using smart phones to provide soldiers with Army

applications

• Evaluating new approaches that allow soldiers to

communicate in battlespace

• Smart Phone potential to enable every soldier access to

information

• Developing means to rapidly update and share information –

at a fraction of the cost of traditional methods

Michael McCarthy, Director of Operations, Brigade

Modernization Command, TRADOC, US Army

15.55

REMOTE PRESENTATION: Training the Army to Write Apps:

Functionality, Compatibility and Deployment

• The future of Apps in the Army

• Changing the way information is distributed

• Certification and entering the Army network

Lieutenant Colonel Gregory Motes, FA53 Course Leader,

US Army Signal Center

16.35

CHAIRMAN’S CLOSING REMARKS AND END OF CONFERENCE

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HALF-DAY PRE-CONFERENCEWORKSHOP

21st February 2012

13:30 - 18:00

NH Danube City Hotel, Vienna

Overview of workshop

This half-day workshop will bring together expertisefrom the satellite and satellite-hybrid communicationsindustry membership of the GVF, companies which,amongst other products and services such as fixedsatellite solutions, supply mobile and deployablesatellite and wireless broadband communicationssolutions to military and civilian agency environments,including in situations where such agenciescollaborate in the field to deliver effective disasterrecovery and emergency management responses. Itwill explore the complexities of the range of combinedactivities of military forces and civilian agencies, andto explain how the respective satellite/wirelessbroadband networking requirements of each of thesetypes of collaborator affect and inter-relate with thecommunications demands of the other.

Programme

13:30 Registration

14:00 Start of Workshop & Introductions

‘60 minute’ Focus A: The Military & Non-Military AgencyCommunications Environment

‘60 minute’ Focus B: Defence Communications Contractors &the Inter-Agency Space, etc.

16:00 Coffee Break

16:30 ‘60 minute’ Focus C: Combining Inter-Agency Satellite Communications Platforms, etc.

17:30 Interactive Question and Answer Session

18:00 Close of Workshop

About the workshop host

Martin Jarrold, Chief, International ProgrammeDevelopment, Global VSAT Forum Martin Jarrold wasappointed GVF Chief of International ProgrammeDevelopment in June 2001. His particularresponsibilities include outreach to the memberorganisations of the GVF and for the furtherdevelopment of the profile of the Forum within thesatellite communications industry, and across theglobal telecommunications policy and regulatorycommunity.

About the organisation

Founded in 1997, GVF is the single and unified voice ofthe global satellite industry. It brings togetherorganisations engaged in the delivery of advancedbroadband and narrowband satellite services toconsumers, and commercial and governmententerprises worldwide. Headquartered in London, GVFis an independent, non-partisan and non-profitorganisation with 230+ members from more than 85countries. The broad-based membership representsevery major world region and every sector of thesatellite industry, including fixed and mobile satelliteoperators, satellite network operators, teleports,satellite earth station manufacturers, systemintegrators, value added and enhanced serviceproviders, telecom carriers, consultants, law firms, andusers. www.gvf.org

Satellite & Satellite-HybridCommunications Networking

Capability and Civil-Military Inter-Agency Collaboration

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