TETRA Congress Warsaw, 13.-14.6.2006

Military use of TETRA

Dr Michael Street

Chair, Working Group 5 (Voice Coding), ETSI TC TETRA

Principal Scientist, NATO C3 Agency

Michael.Street @ nc3a.nato.int

IntroductionWhy 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 CommunicationsInteroperability Protocol

Interoperable security anywhere

Secure communications on any networkMajor, 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 NATONATO 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, 13.-14.6.2006

Final wordsDeployable

Interoperable

Secure

Telecommunications

Dziękuję Thank you