SMi Group's Military PNT 2020 conference takes place in London in May

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eXPeRt SPeAKeRS inCLUDe:
Lieutenant Colonel tim vasen, Space SME, C4ISR & Space Branch,
Joint Airpower Competence Centre (JAPCC)
Commander Giancarlo Melicchio, Chief of GNSS Section, italian
Defence General Staff
Lieutenant Colonel Stephen toth, Commander, 2nd Space Operations
Squadron, US Air Force
Squadron Leader Mark Lynch, Beyond Line Of Sight Desk Officer & SO2
SATCOM and PNT, UK Strategic Command, UK MoD
Professor Bryn James, Senior Fellow - Physical Sciences Group,
Dstl
Dr Pierluigi Mancini, NAVISP Programme Manager, Directorate of
Navigation, european Space Agency
Dr John Burke, Program Manager, Microsystems Technology Office
MTO, DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)
Mr Jean-Pierre Diris, Head of Department, Navigation and
Telecommunication, national Centre for Space Studies (CneS)
Mr Arlen Biersgreen, Program Manager, Navigation Technology
Satellite 3 (NTS-3), AFRL, US Air Force
Commandant Marina Ballanger, Head of Navigation, Technical
Division, DGA
Dr ingo Baumann, Attorney at Law & Partner,
BhO Legal
Dr Robert Weber, Head of Satellite Geodesy Research Group
& AUSPRO Lead, tU-vienna & FFG
Dr ivan Petrunin, Lecturer in Digital Signal Processing for Autonomous
Systems, Cranfield University
Dr Sarang thombre, Research Manager & Research Group Leader,
Navigation and Positioning, Finnish Geospatial Research institute FGi
Mr Alexander Rügamer, Group Manager Specialized GNSS Receivers,
Fraunhofer institute for integrated Circuits iiS
Mr Rasmus Flytkjær, Associate Director, Space,
London economics
Ms Aureline Borel, Permanent Representative,
Galileo Services
Mr Johnathon Caldwell, Vice President Navigation Systems,
Lockheed Martin Space
Dr Leon Lobo, Project Manager,
national Physical Laboratory
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SMi Proudly Presents...
enhancing Resilience and Capability
for Warfighting PNT Systems
Military PNT
2020
CONFERENCE:
18TH-19TH
MAY
event hiGhLiGhtS:
1. Military briefings from the US DoD comprehensively
covering GPS and NTS-3 programmes: highlighting the
present and future of US PNT
2. Hear about a diverse array of topics including PNT
resilience, legal frameworks, case study analysis on
GNSS outages and warfighter navigation requirements
3. Understand how the UK’s Positioning, Navigation
and Timings landscape will look in a post-Galileo
environment
4. Engage with senior military and industry leaders to
understand the warfighters needs for operating in
degraded and denied environments with resilient
PNT and explore capabilities showcased within a
dedicated exhibition hall
GOLD SPOnSOR

2. Day One | Monday 18th May 2020 www.militarypnt.com
08.00 Registration & Coffee
08.50 Chair’s Opening Remarks
Senior Representative, Name to be Confirmed, Lockheed Martin
UK Perspectives on Future PNT
09.00 Robust Global Navigation System - Providing the Backbone of Capability for
the UK MoD
• An introduction to the R-GNS programme, its focus and ambition
• Delivery of satellite receivers for R-GNS: commercial collaboration and
embedded resilience and anti-interference features
• Operating in a multi-constellation, multi-service satellite navigation sector
– enabling accurate and safe navigation
• SwAP considerations for ground segment receivers and terminals
• Future priorities for UK MoD – where additional partnership will be possible
Squadron Leader Mark Lynch, Beyond Line Of Sight Desk Officer SO2
SATCOM and PNT, UK Strategic Command, UK MoD
09.30 The UK’s Global Navigation Satellite System
• Examining options to deliver assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing
(PNT) services
• Engineering Design and Development (EDDP) – exploring the options for a
UK GNSS system
• Key technical requirements for GNSS: resilience, assured access and
secure by design
• Outreach and collaboration with MoD and industry – priorities within the
agency
Speaker Session Reserved for GNSS Team, UK Space Agency
10.00 Accurate Timing for GNSS and PNT Applications
• Current ST into PNT and GNSS capability
• Use cases and exploitation
• How disrupting traditional approaches to GNSS will support the warfighters
tactical edge
Professor Bryn James, Senior Fellow - Physical Sciences Group, Dstl
10.30 Morning Coffee
Warfighter PNT Considerations
11.00 Combination of Constellations as a Means to Provide Resilient PNT
• Evolution of NATO operations – the growth of reliance on space systems
and PNT
• NAVWAR doctrines and asymmetrical threats: what this means for NATO
operation in degraded environments
• Combination of GPS and Galileo as a means to provide more frequencies
and a greater number of satellite data sources to improve overall PNT service
• Overcoming PNT challenges – either by user or geographical requirements
Lieutenant Colonel Tim Vasen, Space SME, C4ISR Space Branch, Joint
Airpower Competence Centre (JAPCC)
11.30 Session Reserved for Gold Sponsor Lockheed Martin
Mr Johnathon Caldwell, Vice President Navigation
Systems, Lockheed Martin Space
12.00 GNSS Programme Developments for the Italian MoD
• Current status of Italy’s PNT network – space segment considerations
• Italian integration into the Galileo constellation – collaboration with key
partners on the project
• Why GNSS is important: a global system for an expeditionary force
• Future priorities for PNT development from an Italian perspective
Commander Giancarlo Melicchio, Chief of GNSS Section, Italian Defence
General Staff
12.30 Networking Lunch
French Approaches to GNSS
13.30 French Collaboration within European GNSS Efforts
• Monitoring GNSS systems
• Precise positioning applications
• Future trends on navigation
Mr Jean-Pierre Diris, Head of Department, Navigation and
Telecommunication, National Centre for Space Studies (CNES)
14.00 DGA Requirements for Future Secured Access to PNT
• PNT and its role in supporting the warfighter – why it is important
• Integrating anti-jamming and anti-spoofing capabilities into resilient and
secure systems
• Alternative sources for PNT data for denied environment operations
• Future requirements for robust capabilities
Commandant Marina Ballanger, Head of Navigation, Technical Division, DGA
14.30 Afternoon Tea
Resilient Timing
15.00 National Resiliency in Timing
• Protecting the national time scale
• GNSS-independent timing for CNI
• Stimulating a supply chain in timing and dissemination solutions
• Addressing the skills gap
Dr Leon Lobo, Project Manager, National Physical Laboratory
Legal Perspective on PNT
15.30 PNT Resilience: A Legal Perspective
• Spoofing and jamming of GNSS signals are a growing concern for
deployed
• GNSS are very vulnerable due to the low power of signals
• Military operations however have to rely on PNT
• Case studies of recent GNSS spoofing and jamming cases both in military
and civil domains
• Legal framework applicable to spoofing and jamming on national and
international (ITU and UN) level
Dr Ingo Baumann, Attorney at Law Partner, BHO Legal
GNSS Interference Case Studies and Analysis
16.00 The Vulnerability of Modern Society to a Loss of GNSS
• London Economics work with the Danish government to produce key
reports on GNSS reliance
• Analysis of Denmark’s PNT resilience, redundancy and where outages
would impact provision of services
• Lessons learned for development of PNT systems and how to enhance
their robustness
Mr Rasmus Flytkjær, Associate Director, Space, London Economics
16.30 Chair’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
Senior Representative, Name to be Confirmed, Lockheed Martin
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3. 08.30 Registration Coffee
08.50 Chair’s Opening Remarks
GPS AnD ntS-3: PReSent AnD FUtURe CAPABiLity
09.00 GPS - the Backbone of US Pnt Capability
• An introduction to GPS: providing navigational data for the warfighter
• Ensuring passive all-weather operations: work of the 2nd Space
Operations Squadron
• Cryptology and secured access: cyber considerations for robust PNT
provision
• C2 for mission sets for GPS: improving signal accuracy
Lieutenant Colonel Stephen toth, Commander, 2nd Space Operations
Squadron, US Air Force
09.30 ntS-3: Pointing the Way to the next Generation of Satellite navigation
• Challenges to current space-based PNT: warfighter realities in GPS
degraded and denied environments
• Diversifying PNT architecture around GPS to build unbreakable resilience
• How NTS-3 and future iterations can augment GPS with advanced and
persistent capabilities
• NTS-3’s approach to agility and on-orbit reprogrammability
• How results from the NTS-3 demonstration will transition to future
programme developments
Mr Arlen Biersgreen, Program Manager, Navigation Technology Satellite 3
(NTS-3), AFRL, US Air Force
10.00 Session Reserved for Sponsor
10.30 Morning Coffee
ADvAnCeD Pnt COnCePtS
11.00 RD in Future Positioning, navigation and timing
• High stability, low noise sensors and frequency synthesis in support of new
PNT capabilities
• Miniaturised atomic clocks for future PNT applications: progress within the
ACES program
• PNT technology and its impact on GPS users
• Blackjack and future small satellite enabled future positioning and timing
accuracy
• Where next for future research: providing robust and resilient PNT moving
forward
Dr John Burke, Program Manager, Microsystems Technology Office MTO,
DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)
11.30 Session Reserved for Sponsor
12.00 networking Lunch
PAn-eUROPeAn GnSS COnCePtS
13.00 nAviSP Programme - eSA engagement with Pnt Sectors
• Aims and ambitions of ESA within the Navigation domain - NAVISP
• NAVISP: a key enabler for innovation – leveraging information and skills
from the ESA GNSS
• ESA’s work across the PNT value chain: developing infrastructure and RD
for PNT products beyond the H2020 activities and with the aim of creating
European PNT industry champions
• Facilitating the generation of PNT innovation to support evolving user
needs
Dr Pierluigi Mancini, NAVISP Programme Manager, Directorate of
Navigation, european Space Agency
14.00 GnSS industry Update and Outlook
• Role of Galileo Services in supporting the provision of the downstream
GNSS industry
• Collaboration with the EU GNSS Agency (GSA) to develop initiatives such
as the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF)
• State of the market – a primer on the industries status and outlook moving
forward
Ms Aureline Borel, Permanent Representative, Galileo Services
OveRCOMinG GnSS inteRFeRenCe
14.30 Providing Assured Satellite Navigation and Anti-Spoofing Research
• Generating a spoofing resistant PNT system to support the German MoD
• Encryption for navigation services: continuously available signal in space
to provide greater robustness
• Antenna array solutions to mitigate PNT interference and spoofing
• Sophisticated PNT interference and spoofing testing solutions
Mr Alexander Rügamer, Group Manager Specialized GNSS Receivers,
Fraunhofer institute for integrated Circuits iiS
15.00 Afternoon tea
15.30 Road Map for Future european Satellite navigation
• Development of GALILEO and signal in space services – where there is
room for regional augmentations
• European GNSS and technical opportunities with Austrian GNSS service
providers
• Future potential and user needs in positioning accuracy and real-time
data monitoring systems
• Mesh network provision: increasing the resilience and robustness of PNT
service provision
Dr Robert Weber, Head of Satellite Geodesy Research Group AUSPRO
Lead, tU-vienna FFG
Pnt in SUPPORt OF teRReStRiAL APPLiCAtiOnS
16.00 Assured Pnt for Aerial Platforms
• Robust PNT role in UAV applications – collective missions and precision
mapping in support of urban air mobility
• GNSS vulnerabilities – jamming, spoofing, meaconing and EM interference
• Resilient PNT to overcome interference: GNSS and complimentary systems
to enable assured access
• Alternative PNT trends – visual based navigation, map match and
navigation using signals of opportunity
Dr ivan Petrunin, Lecturer in Digital Signal Processing for Autonomous
Systems, Cranfield University
nAviGAtiOn in the hiGh nORth
16.30 Arctic Pnt - Key Considerations
• Aurora SNOWBOX as a key infrastructure in the Arctic PNT innovation
platform
• Utilising the infrastructure of SNOWBOX and the GNSS reference stations
• Data analysis to optimise PNT when deployed in Arctic environments
• Overcoming environmental limitations to provide accurate positioning for
varied applications
Dr Sarang thombre, Research Manager Research Group Leader,
Navigation and Positioning, Finnish Geospatial Research institute FGi
17.00 Chair’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day two
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4. MILITARY PNT 2020
Conference: Monday 18th Tuesday 19th May 2020, Holiday Inn Kensington Forum, London, United Kingdom
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