TETRA Congress Warsaw, Military use of TETRA Dr Michael Street Chair, Working Group 5 (Voice Coding), ETSI TC TETRA Principal Scientist, NATO C3 Agency nc3a.nato.int

Introduction Why is the military using TETRA ? Where is TETRA being used by the military ? TETRA in the wider military CIS architecture Role of TETRA for Civil-Military Cooperation Effect of frequency allocation on military use of TETRA ?

Why TETRA ? Military role has changed –Peace-keeping and Peace-support –Crisis response –Disaster relief Composition of forces has changed –increasingly multi-service, multi-national Military budgets have changed

TETRA Services Services –comparable to Combat Net Radio Spectrum –Operates in Military UHF band –Spectrally efficient - Military UHF allocation is mainly 25kHz Security –Must meet national security requirements

TETRA … Developed for Public Safety & Security –Has C3 features –Meets S3 requirements : services, spectrum, security Developed for a large, security conscious user group –COTS / GOTS equipment

Where is military TETRA ? National defence forces have TETRA systems in –Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway … Military using public safety systems in –Belgium, Finland, UK … Exercises –Combined Endeavour, Strong Resolve, Cooperative Partner, Dynamic Response, Steadfast Cathode … Operationally, by nations in –Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq..

TETRA in Civil-Military Cooperation Civil-military cooperation a high priority –Many cases in disaster relief / crisis response –CIMIC now planned Cooperation requires communication –Usually at short notice Public safety TETRA + Military TETRA. = Cooperative communication

Civil Military Cooperation (CIMIC) Changing security environment Increased need for CIMIC – aka “civil assistance”

Civil Military Cooperation Trials Experimentation between –public safety (NL Police – C2000) –national military (RNLAF – MotelAF) –and NATO (NC3A – TES II)

Civil Military Cooperation Trials Network interconnections –Different scales –Gateways – Fast, limited –Back to back repeaters –Guest network access - Seamless –Authentication mechanisms –Security support – AIE and E2E

CIMIC trial summary Using the same standard is good –Sharing comms assets is quick –No training for users – keep the terminal they know Pre-planning enhance CIMIC capability –Authentication –Key sharing for Air interface and End-to-End Encryption –Enable full services, quickly Civil and military must plan together –Military working with ETSI

TETRA in the military CIS architecture Network Enabled Capability –Uses “Networked Information Infrastructure” More networking, more nations, more mobility Wireless architecture for communication and information services TETRA will be a part of this –For CIMIC –For many military operations

Software Defined Radio SDR can support many standards in one radio Software Communications Architecture (SCA) –Very capable – to meet military needs –Very ‘heavy’ –not for public safety or commercial use Military need to interoperate with civil, not vice versa SCA compliant TETRA waveform in development –Swedish-US joint project Software turns a military radio into a TETRA terminal

Future plans: Deployment options Scalable system –Options available for providing service and coverage –Repeaters  local SwMI –Military deployment NATO Exercises in ‘06 Rapid deployment –Repair holes, not plug gaps

NATO Secure Communications Interoperability Protocol Interoperable security anywhere

Secure communications on any network Major, multi-national programme –SCIP programmes in Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Norway, UK, Netherlands, Turkey, Canada, US … –Products in development from Thales, EADS, Selex, Sagem, Rhode & Schwarz, Kongsberg, Technobit, GD, Harris, L-3, Cisco, Qualcomm, Electromagnetica …. –Supported by civil government, military, industry –SCIP products developing for many networks, inc. TETRA

A changing environment for NATO NATO Response Force, Network Enabled Capability, SCIP, SDR, COTS … New NATO wireless architecture –To exploit new technology –To provide wireless security –To be interoperable Future will be a “network of networks” –Fixed and mobile ; commercial, civil and military TETRA is one of these networks

Why TETRA ? Meets user requirements  Ease of deployment  Civil – military use  Security  A key network 

TETRA Congress Warsaw, Final words Deployable Interoperable Secure Telecommunications Dziękuję Thank you

TETRA Congress Warsaw, ACOAllied Command Operations NATO supreme command responsible for all operations e.g. peace-keeping, disaster relief, war ACTAllied Command Transformation NATO Supreme command responsible for new developments e.g. technology, policy, organisation C3Command, Control and Communication CIMICCivil-Military Cooperation Civil and defence forces working together to achieve a common goal e.g peace-keeping, disaster relief COTSCommercial Off The Shelf GOTSGovernment Off The Shelf NNECNATO Network Enabled Capability Using advanced communications and networking to support smarter operations and cooperation NIINetworked Information Infrastructure The networks necessary to support NNEC NRFNATO Response Force A multi-national force of ,000 troops available at short notice for any NATO operation SCASoftware Communications Architecture A standard for defining software for use in software defined radios (SDR) SCIPSecure Communication Interoperability Protocol A developing NATO standard to support end to end security over any network SDRSoftware Defined Radio A radio which can be programmed to behave differently by loading new software Glossary