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Podcast

• Dr. John Bard Talks Software Defined Radio and What's Next for the DoD

Presentations

• Beyond Line of Sight Communication for Networked SDR
  In this presentation, Tim Snodgrass looks beyond line of sight communication for networked SDR.
• Ensuring Multinational Interoperability for Future Forces
  Michael Street and Enrico Casini, NATO C3 Agency
• SDR and other enablers to achieve multi-national tactical radio interoperability
  Michael Street and Enrico Casini, NATO C3 Agency
• SDR projects
  Brigadier General Jean-Luc Combrisson, Telecommunications & INFOSEC Branch, Head, DGA, French MoD
• Introduction of SDR Tactical Communications Drives New Management Tools Concepts
  In this presentation, Gregoire Guibe, FlexNet Product Line Manager, Thales Land and Joint Systems, presents the basic operation requirements for SDR.

Videos

Test and verification challenges in SDR and Cognitive radios

• Back to the Future: MQ-X Brings UAVs Into the Conceptual Battlespace
  

  Colonel Bruce Emig, USAF, is Chief of the Irregular Warfare Division, Headquarters Air Combat Command. In this presentation, he discusses the vision set forward by IWD for RPA (remotely piloted aircraft) development and deployment. He highlights the importance of maintaining a need-based approach - and this need takes aim at the future battle space. Next generation sensors, stealth, all-weather capability, increased speed and payload: these comprise the formula for the RPA of the future.

• Introduction of SDR Tactical Communications Drives New Management Tools Concepts
• The Digital Warfighter: Software Architectures Transition from the Office to the Frontline
  Microsoft has quietly been adding to - and innovating - defence software applications on a large scale, both in dismounted soldier systems as well as in HQ software architectures.

Articles

• JTRS now aboard UAVs
  The US Army has fitted Joint Tactical Radio Systems to unmanned aerial vehicles in order to increase communication range, relay time and operational effectiveness.
• JTRS Tactical Networking Capability
  View the U.S. Navy’s diagram on JTRS products, waveforms and participating units.
• First airborne software defined radio system displayed at Air Show
  Rockwell Collins has showcased its newly delivered ARC-210 RT-1939 Gen5 radio at this year's Paris Air Show, two months after announcing the "landmark" development in the use of software defined radio.
• Defence Agency Improves Combat Communications for Soldier Systems , March 2011
  Gerard Lapierre is the Radio Spectrum Project Officer for the European Defence Agency. Previously, he worked as an engineer for Spectrum Planning and International Affairs at ANFR (French Radio Spectrum Assignment Authorities). In this interview, he discusses the EDA's advances in the realm of tactical communications.
• 'I think, therefore I am'. Cognitive Radio's Impact on War Fighter Mentality, December 2010
  In this interview, Defence IQ Editor Rob Densmore speaks with Dr Al Emondi, Chief Technology Officer for SPAWAR – US Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command-Atlantic in Charleston, South Carolina. R Densmore: Can you give us some background on your areas of expertise and how you came to be involved with SPAWAR?
• Europe turns to US in order to Boost Military Logistics with SDR, April 2009
  In 2006, the European Defence Agency (EDA) and the European Commission came together to work on interoperability of communications between forces from different nationalities as well as between military and civil operators, all with the aim of improving military logistics across the continent and abroad.

Press Releases

• Tactical Data Links: Timothy E. Snodgrass from Rockwell Collins to Address the Modern Battlespace
• SDR Technologies: SES Mr Henry Muller from the US Army to Address Software Advancements and Communication Optimisation
  June 2011
  The implementation of advanced software radios is vital to optimise communication within the US Army, as well as within other SDR countries' forces. As the keynote speaker- Muller will offer a roadmap for existing and future technologies while recognising the complexity of implementing waveforms that is yet to be fully explored.

Whitepaper

• Defence White Paper – Tactical Communications 2011
  Defence IQ’s conference on Tactical Communications was held in April at London’s prestigious Dorchester Hotel and chaired by Lieutenant General Robert Baxter, Master of Signals, UK Armed Forces.
  Industry and military speakers acknowledged the formidable challenges of tactical communications and how results would always lag the plethora of applications promoted for mobile business use.