Tactical Communications 2011

Tactical Communications 2011 will give you the opportunity to:

Find out the status of Software Defined Radio (SDR) development with the USA Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS), the European Secure SOftware Defined Radio (ESSOR) and the alternatives other nations such as the UK MoD (BOWMAN) are pursuing
Hear from front line commanders how military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have affected the CIS requirements of partner nations, due to the pressing need for interoperability between different nations’ C2 systems for effective and coordinated communication
Assess the growing issue of Spectrum Management. Learn the best practices to achieve interference-free transmissions, from the operational successes and failures of the British Army
Learn about the future technical developments in Tactical Communications such as Cognitive and Intelligent radios from technical experts from the Communications Research Group at the University of York

Speaker and Presenter Information

- Adam Hughes, RSDC regimental signals detachment commander, British Army (Ret'd) - John Shutler, MSc, Chief Engineer, ITT Defence Limited - Brigadier General Alan Hill, 11th Signal Brigade, British Army - Lieutenant Colonel Joachim Hjorth, Commandant of the Joint Signal School, Swedish Armed Forces - Brigadier General Geoffrey G Smith Jr., Commander 5th Signal Command, US Army Europe - Mr Alfonso Aiello, Senior Technical Advisor ESSOR Programme, OCCAR - Captain Martin Murray, Headquarters Signal Officer in Chief, British Army - Mr Geoff Boyd, Boyd, Deputy Operations Officer, Joint Spectrum Office, US DoD - Captain Will Goodman, Chief Instructor, Joint Forward Air Controller Training Standards Unit, Royal Air Force - Paul Adams, Head of Defence Spectrum Policy, UK MoD - Dr Phil Vigneron, Canadian representative to standardisation group, NATO - Senior Representative, US Army Signal Center of Excellence, US Army - Dr Peter Emmett, TACOMS International Project Office, NATO - Tim Mahon, Analyst, Hawk ISM - Dr David Grace, Head of Communications Research Group, University of York - Lieutenant General Robert Baxter (Ret'd) CBE, Master of Signals, Royal Corps of Signals, British Army