INTELLIGENT CONTROL OF ADVERSARY RADIO COMMUNICATION (ICAR)
describing the role and timing of each participant as foe or friend defined each scenario. The test bed efficiency was successfully demonstrated in real time during either the preparation phase or the demonstration performed in Austria on 19 July 2012.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This project was managed and funded in the frame of the EDA R&T Joint Investment Programme on Force Protection by the Contributing Members: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden.
The consortium involves teams from eight nations: France (THALES), Germany (FKIE), Netherlands (TNO), Poland (MUT), Austria (JR), Greece (TELETEL), Slovakia (AOS), and Belgium (RMA), (see figure on the left and table below). Thanks to all the project partners having contributed to the success of the ICAR project by their constant efforts during all phases of execution and to Schiebel UAV industry involved in the location function for the convoy scenario. We address also our special thanks to the Austrian Ministry of Defence and Army for hosting the trials and demonstrations at the Jansa Kaserne in Großmittel near Vienna in June and July 2012. ■
Participant organisation name
Country
Short name
THALES Communications and Security
FR
TCS
Military University of Technology
PL
MUT
Royal Military Academy & Université catholique de Louvain
BE
RMA/UCL
A
JR
TNO
NL
TNO
FKIE
D
FKIE
Armed Forces Academy of Slovakia
SK
AOS
TELETEL
GR
TEL
Joanneum Research
ABOUT THE AUTHORS Philippe Morgand is a project manager in the Sensors Processing Laboratory department at Thales Communications and Security, in Genevilliers, France. His interests include location algorithms, MIMO transmissions, civilian networks and real-time systems. He has been involved as coordinator in the FP5 project named ESCORT (GSM-R MIMO transmissions in confined METRO tunnels), the RNRT LUTECE project (GSM location system by direction finding and homing for SAR of people under avalanches), the GSA MAGIC project dedicated to the X,Y location by triangulation of Galileo and GPS interferers, the FP6 STARRS project aimed at detecting and locating by direction finding and homing unconscious people using 3G or PMR terminals under rubbles or in ferro concrete buildings, and the EDA contract named ICAR and dedicated to detection and location of adversary communications and RC-IED. Michael Sieber has a Diploma in Electrical Engineering. During his military and civil service in the German Armed Forces he assumed various responsibilities in operational, technical and international domains. This included munitions, vehicles, robotics, communications, modelling and simulation, radio frequency/electro-optical sensors, reconnaissance technology and electronic warfare. In the German Ministry of Defence he was Senior International Armaments Affairs Officer, before joining the European Defence Agency (EDA) as Assistant Research & Technology Director in 2010.
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