Secure Networks for the Tactical User Workshops: Thursday, January 28, 2010

8:30am - 10:30am Assured Information Sharing In Heterogeneous Tactical Environments

This workshop explores opportunities and challenges that confront the military in the tactical context, where warfighters are expected to process sensitive, time-critical information in harsh environments and often with allies and coalition partners. A key question is how to adequately safeguard tactical information availability, integrity, and confidentiality without over-protecting data and thus hindering sharing. Following an overview presentation, a panel of experts will provide perspective and help frame key issues.

What will be covered:

• Current technical barriers to information sharing, including data over-classification and system assurance issues
• Information sharing architectural tradeoffs
• Risks/benefits of just-in-time sharing environments and tactically deployed cross domain solutions

How you will benefit:

• Tactical information sharing problems and potential solutions
• The netcentricity trend and implications for expanded cyber threats at the tactical edge
• Tactical cyberspace as its own battlefield to be fought

10:30am - 12:30pm Data Engineering For Composable Net-Centric Services

Service-oriented architectures (SOA) running on the Global Information Grid GIG) should provide functionality to the military user that can be composed based on the current operational requirements. The tutorial will introduce the steps of data engineering using well-defined engineering methods, including the underlying mathematical frame.

What will be covered:

• Net-Centric Data Strategy (What it is; where it supports the LCIM; where it leaves gaps that need to be closed)
• Joint command, control and consultation information exchange data model
• Data Engineering (Administration, Management, Alignment, Transformation)

How you will benefit:

• Translate these ideas into engineering methods that need to be applied if an operational service needs to be integrated into the netcentric environment
• Applying data engineering
• Adapting a system to support a common operational picture using the JC3IEDM Visualizer

1:00pm - 3:00pm Building Next Generation Military Networks with Commercial Technology

This tutorial provides an overview of commercial wireless networking technologies within the context of the commercial domain and the potential roles of these technologies in the evolving network-centric warfighting force

What will be covered:

• Overview of key architectural visions that play an important part in the developing wireless Internet
• Detailed overview of a select set of key emerging disruptive wireless technologies
• Overview of key pervasive commercial network technologies

How you will benefit:

• Discover the basic capabilities of these technologies
• Receive a comprehensive overview of key existing and emerging commercial wireless network technologies

Jack Burbank
Principal Professional Staff, Supervisor
Wireless Information Operations The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

3:00pm - 5:00pm Tactical Mobile Ad Hoc Networking For High-Quality, Low-Latency Streaming Video

This tutorial seeks to present a recent software defined radio (SDR) evaluation platform for tactical mobile ad hoc networking (MANET)

What will be covered:

• Addressing the challenges of delivering high bandwidth video to the warfighter
• Overview of current tactical MANET platforms including capabilities and limitations
• GHz band operation and LPI/LPD enhancement

How you will benefit:

• Extend use of current technology for tactical video streaming
• Reduce latency time to deliver time sensitive, high bandwidth information to the warfighter
• Improve situational awareness through streaming video rather than traditional text based information

Dr. Tom Halford
Trellisware