Interoperabilitythrough joint standards and common certification Conference on Software Defined Radio17 | 18 November 09 | Tuusula | Finland

Together with Finnish Defence Forces, EDA will organize a conference on Software Defined Radio dedicated to “Interoperability through joint standards and common certification”. The Conference will take place on 17 and 18 November 2009 in Tuusula, near Helsinki. The objective of the Conference is to support and enhance the mutual understanding of the SDR standardization and certification amongst pMS, the US, international organizations such as European Commission (EC) and NATO as well as industry.

The Conference will be opened by four keynote speakers:• Mr Richard Barfoot, Chief of NATO Communications Identification Navigation and Networks Branch• Rear Admiral Francesco V. Pierucci, Chairman of the ESSOR programme committee• Ms Kathey "KB" Bailey, Director of International Programs of the US Joint tactical radio system (JTRS), Joint Program Executive Office• Mr Andrea Lorelli, Technical officer of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute

The organisation expects about 70 senior decision makers from the EU Member States' Armed Forces, EC, US JTRS programme, OCCAR, NATO and Industry.

Increasing the need for standardization and certification of the Software Defined Radios has been identified as one of the main areas for the European Defence Agency. The EDA SDR Conference 2009 is organised to create and enhance the mutual understanding of the joint SDR standardization and certification amongst pMS, EC, other international organizations such as NATO and industry. The Conference will be organized together with two separate workshops each dealing separately with the topics of SDR standardization and certification.

The Conference will highlight key contextual issues surrounding the need for common aspects of SDR and outline the challenges that need to be collectively overcome, in the short, medium and longer-term. Potential solutions, including collaborative opportunities to enhance joint capability, will be proposed and industrial contributions to meet the challenges will be presented. One of conference main task is to form recommendations on the subject of SDR development to be followed among all key players.

The Conference will be opened by four keynote speakers, the Chief of NATO CNNIB, Mr Richard Barfoot, the Chairman of the ESSOR programme committee, Rear Admiral Francesco V. Pierucci, the Director of International Programs in Joint Program Executive Office, Ms Kathey "KB" Bailey, and the Technical officer of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, Mr Andrea Lorelli. After the keynote speeches more detailed discussions will take place in the expert panels of the two separated workshops.

The first workshop, “SDR standardization”, will focus on identifying the possible steps and actions ahead in order to achieve common standards for both military and public safety users. The second workshop, “SDR certification”, will investigate methods and mechanism for the certification of SDR products; both from a hardware and a software point of view to enable true portability of the waveforms provide the interoperability. After the workshops, the findings and conclusions will be presented in the plenary session of the Conference as recommended steps for the SDR standardization and certification development.

Updated information about the conference will be posted on the EDA web-site: www.eda.europa.eu.

Conference Team:Tel: +32 (0)2 504.29.11Fax: +32 (0)2 504.29.15armaments@eda.europa.eu

Note: The conference will be based on invitation only.

Programme

Day 1 08h30-09h00 Bus transportation from the conference hotel

09h00-09h30 Registration of participants & Coffee

09h30-09h35 Welcome by the Chief Armaments FDF BG Veli-Pekka Valtonen

09h35-09h45 Conference address by the Armaments Director of the EDA, Mr Jukka Juusti

09h45-10h15 NATO approach on SDR standardization and certification, by the Chief of NATO C3I, Mr Richard Barfoot

10h15-10h45 SDR architecture and standard on ESSOR by the Chairman of the ESSOR Programme, C.A. Francesco V.

Pierucci

10h45-11h15 Coffee Break

11h15-11h45 COAL WNW – the answer to the joint capability by the Director of International Programs in the Joint

Program Executive Office (JPEO), Ms Katherine Bailey

11h45-12h15 SDR standardization from European perspective by the European Telecommunication Standards Institute

(ETSI), Mr Andrea Lorelli

12h15-13h30 Networking Lunch

14h45-15h00 Questions and clarifications

15h00-15h30 Coffee break

15h30-16h45 Workshop discussions

16h45-17h00 Conclusions and EOB

17h00-19h00 Possibility for sauna and/or cultural activities

19h00–22h00 Social event (hosted by the industry)

22h00-22h30 Bus transportation back to the conference hotel

Workshop 1, SDR standardization

13h30-13h45 Opening speech by the Moderator,

Col Tapio Halkola

13h45-14h05 Public safety related SDR

development from EC point of view

by the EC DGE, Mr Ignacio Montel-

Sanchez

14h05-14h25 Evaluation of the SDR standards by

the principal officer NC3A, Dr

Michael Street

14h25-14h45 Standardization remarks of mobile

telecommunication technology by

Mr. Mauri Honkanen

Workshop 2, SDR certification

13h30-13h45 Opening speech by the Moderator,

Mr Patrick Rey

13h45-14h05 SCA certification by the SDR forum,

Dr Ruediger Leschhorn

14h05-14h25 EDA SDR certification approach by

EDA principal officer, Mr Tero

Solante

14h25-14h45 Conclusions and EOB, ESSOR view

on certification by the president of

ESSOR SAS

Programme

Day 2 08h30-09h00 Bus transportation from the conference hotel

09h00-09h30 Registration of participants & Coffee

11h00-11h15 Questions and clarifications

11h15-11h45 Coffee break

11h45-12h45 Workshop discussions

12h45-13h00 Conclusions and EO

13h00-14h15 Networking lunch

14h15-14h35 Workshop 1 - SDR standardization - Results by the Moderator, Col Tapio Halkola

14h35-15h05 Workshop 2 - SDR certification - Results by the Moderator, Mr. Patrick Rey

15h05-15h45 Plenary Session: Final discussions and recommendations by EDA's Armaments Director,

Mr. Jukka Juusti

15h45-15h55 Closing remarks by EDA's Armaments Director, Mr. Jukka Juusti

15h45-16h00 Farewells by the Chief Armaments FDF, BG Veli-Pekka Valtonen

From 16h00 Bus transportation to the airport and to Helsinki.

Workshop 1, SDR standardization

09h00 - 09h50 Opening speech and day 1

summary by the Moderator, Col

Tapio Halkola

09h50-10h10 Civilian security view based on

EULER programme, by the Project

Manager, Mr Vincent Seignole and

Mr Bruno Calvet

10h10-10h25 Possible standardization approach

through SDR forum by the CEO, Mr

Lee Pucker

10h25-10h40 EDA SDR standardization approach

by the EDA principal officer, Mr Tero

Solante

10h40-11h00 ESSOR architecture and standard

by the ESSOR SAS, Mr Christian

Serra

Workshop 2, SDR certification

09h00 - 09h50 Opening speech and day 1

summary by the Moderator,

Mr. Patrick Rey

09h50-10h10 US and JTRS approach on

certification, Ms. Kathey "KB" Bailey

10h10-10h25 Presentation of EDA SDR

standardization and certification

feasibility study by the Consortium

Project manager

10h25-10h40 SDR business case from Finnish

Defence Industry point of view by

the Vice President of Elektrobit Mr

Ari Virtanen

10h40-11h00 R&S view on SDR certification by

R&S Director Strategic Marketing,

Mr Hubert Wohlfart