7:15 Registration & Coffee
8:15 Chairperson’s Welcome & Opening Remarks
Aurora Taylor-Rojas
Director Hardware Development
L-3 Communications
Morning
Keynote
8:30 Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA)
- Future Defense Spectrum Management Concepts
- DoD DSA Spectrum Management Roadmap
- Enhancing mission capabilities and interoperability
Paige Atkins
SES, Director
Defense Spectrum Organization
9:15 Update From The Electronics, Sensors, And Network
Research Division
- Current work on Anti-jam and low-probability-of-intercept techniques, radio networks, and dynamic internetworking
- Electromagnetic spectrum in support of Navy and Marine Corps needs
Dr. Preston “Chip” Grounds
Director, Electronics, Sensors & Network Research Division
Office of Naval Research
09:50 Networking Break
10:35 ESSOR: European Secure Software Defined Radio
- Providing architecture of SDR
- Validation and verification of waveform portability and platform re-configurability and setting up common security basis
- Participating nations, studies and project status
Philippe Margot
ESSOR Program Manager
OCCAR
11:10 Moving SDRs From Prototypes To Deployment Using Software Virtual Networks (SVNs)
- An emerging technology that provides virtualized environments for SDRs by digitally representing the entire network- devices, waveforms, middleware, software, terrain effects, mobility, channel allocation and human interaction effects
- How the SVN technology can help assess and test the impact of SDRs in the context of realistic, large-scale deployment scenarios
Dr. Rajive Bagrodia
PhD, Professor, Computer Science Department
UCLA
11:45 Lunch
1:00 Multi-Giga-Bit Software Defined Modem
- Applications of High Capacity Data Links
- Introduction to All-Digital Processing Modem
- Parallel Processing for High-Capacity Waveforms
Dr. Osama Haddadin
Consulting Engineer
L-3 Communication Systems – West
1:45 The Evolution Of SDR Technology In Government Communications
- Market adoption of SDR Technology
- SDR in government communications today
- Programs advancing SDR technology
Lee Pucker
CEO
SDR Forum
2:20 Networking Break
T&E Focus
2:50 SDR Testing And Evaluation
- Design of microelectronic and test and measurement solutions
- Efficient testing and evaluation of software defined radios, and how they perform in the field
- Development of semiconductors that are capable of operating in harsh environments
Andrew Reynolds
Field Applications Engineer
Aeroflex Cupertino
3:25 Dynamic Spectrum Access And Future Initiatives
- Current and future needs for DoD spectrum access
- Lessons learned and challenges faced
Mr. Howard McDonald
Team Lead for DSA, Defense Spectrum Organization
DISA
4:00 Customized Software Radio Communication Solutions
For Niche Applications
- Current challenges with SCA
- Case studies of custom communications applications that were implemented using SDR technologies
- Future areas for possible further customization
Jeremy Price
Senior Research Engineer, Communications and Embedded Systems Department Automation and Data Systems Division
Southwest Research Institute