Global Milsatcom
17th to 18th November 2004, Jury's Great Russell Street Hotel, London

AFTERNOON STREAM SESSIONS
choose to attend one of the two concurrent sessions
STREAM A: COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKING


Chair: Chris Forrester, Editor, EMEA, SATMAGAZINE

FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN MILSATCOM
1.50 What a difference a year makes
  • The push for >2GHz JTRS/SCA compliance
  • Doctrine, transformation and market direction
  • C2-on-the-move
  • MilSatCom as a key component in a system-of-systems transport architecture
Frank Prautzsch, Director, Business Development, Raytheon Integrated Communications Systems
Brian Rodriguez, Director, International Programs, Raytheon Integrated Communications Systems


SATELLITE NETWORKING FOR NAVAL BATTLEGROUPS
2.30 Naval tactical and operational networking options
  • Naval requirements for flexible and reliable satellite links
  • Fleet Battle Experiment (FBE) experimentation process
  • Examination and identification of commercial bandwidth
  • Test, evaluation and acceptance
Michael Rupar, Head, Satellite and Wireless Networking Section, Naval Research Laboratory

3.10 Afternoon Tea

INMARSAT 4 - BROADBAND GLOBAL AREA NETWORK
3.40 The next generation satellites
  • Update of Inmarsat 4 programme as Satellite's approach launch
  • BGAN - ½ MB per second to/from hand portable terminal
  • Network c entric communications for disadvantages users
  • Achieving Interoperability
Gene Jilg, Vice President Advanced Systems and Government Solutions, Inmarsat
STREAM B: SATELLITE OPERATORS & THE GOVERNMENT CUSTOMER

Chair: Dylan Browne, Managing Director, London Satellite Exchange

1.50 FRENCH NAVY MILSATCOM AND COMMERCIAL CONTRIBUTION
  • SYRACUSE is not the all-in-one solution to meet SATCOM requirements
    • Case study: naval ships, aircrafts, UAVs
  • French project for maritime surveillance aircraft: AVIASAT
    • French 1st approach in telecom for a service provision
  • French Navy leading position to roll-out commercial SATCOM
    • Naval segment: project TELCOMARSAT
    • Space segment: project ASTEL-S
Commander Rodolphe Paris, SATCOM Program Manager, French Navy

BRIDGING GOVERMENTAL AND CIVILIAN SECTORS
2.30 Use of civil satellite network services for military applications
  • Who is Eutelsat?
  • Role of commercial satellites for government applications
  • Coverage advantages for current potential operations
  • Reliability of Eutelsat system and quality of support to government clients
  • IP value added services on offer for government clients
Ron Samuel, Chief Operating Officer, Eutelsat Hans Maatman, Sales Director, Eutelsat

3.10 Afternoon Tea

XTAR
3.40 A new breed of commercial satellite
  • What is and why XTAR?
  • Unique characteristics
  • Military applications performances
  • Value proposition
  • Current status
D D'Ambrosio, Vice President, Government Services, XTAR LLC