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24-25 August 2010, Washington DC JSTeF and WINNF are cosponsoring this meeting to explore the publically releasable features of an “SCA Next” draft specification and to establish mechanisms for feedback and comments from Forum members and guests. Details of this meeting are still in development but please reserve these dates if the evolution of the SCA specification is important to you and your organization. WinnForum members can access the SCA Next Working Group Portal here.
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Business Opportunities
Effective Risk Communications Against the IED Threat, Phases II-IV
Funding Opportunity Number: BAA10-16
Current Closing Date for Applications: Sep 07, 2010
Description:
This BAA solicits proposals that will support the implementation of a project in Effective Risk Communications Against the IED Threat within the Community Preparedness and Resilience program area. The project supports this effort by examining the methods and means for framing effective hazard and risk warnings and public service communications by local government officials, senior First Responders, and civic leaders in the event of a terrorist attack or campaign employing Improvised Explosive Devices(IEDs). The objective of this research effort is to develop empirically-based and peer-reviewed guidelines for use by local government officials and civic leaders in framing hazard and risk warnings for their communities in the event of a terrorist attack employing an improvised explosive device. Cognitive Cross-layer Wireless Networking Architectures and Protocols
Topic Number: OSD10-AN1 (OSD/OSD)
Objective:
Design and assess innovative methods to create cognitive cross-layer wireless networking protocols to achieve autonomous network resiliency in contested RF spectra. End-to-End BMDS Strategic Communication Systems
Topic Number: MDA10-003 (MDA)
Objective:
Devise innovative concepts to enhance the reliability of both Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Satellite Communications and communications between the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) Fire Control and Platform Vehicle Architectures under severe wartime conditions. The focus is to increase probability of message delivery in the presence of both adversarial electronic counter-measures (ECM) and signal fading caused by ionospheric scintillation arising from high altitude nuclear explosions. Provide analysis of proposed communications solutions within the framework of MDA layered architecture, and develop prototype hardware that will demonstrate the utility of the proposed solution. Innovative Approaches to On-Demand Cloud Computing over Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks
Topic Number: AF10-BT03 (AirForce)
Objective:
Develop techniques, algorithms, protocols and architectures to enable on-demand cloud computing across varied tactical platforms utilizing distributed ad-hoc wireless networks. Waveform Design, Database, and Development for Radio Communications
Topic Number: SB103-007 (DARPA)
Objective:
Develop innovative tools and software functions that significantly improve the quality and development cycle time for creation of waveform and protocol software for radio communications systems. Tools and techniques will be developed that allow a communications engineer to design, produce, analyze, document, and validate radio waveform and protocol software required to implement radio communications networks. This effort enables standardized, interoperable waveforms and protocols across multiple processor and FPGA families, and across multiple radio vendors.
Expressions of Interest and WG Contributions for COST-TERRA WInnForum and COST-TERRA signed a MoU during the 66th working meeting in Mainz, Germany. COST-TERRA is now gathering expressions of interest and contributions towards the first set of working group meetings and wish to extend this invitation to the WInnForum membership. These meetings will be held in Brussels on August 30 and 31, 2010. The goal of working group 1 (WG1) is to define a wide inventory of potential deployment scenarios for CR and SDR operating in the real world, and corresponding functional models for CR and SDR in each of these scenarios. These deployment scenarios might be proposed either by members of the technical community or the economic community. The scenarios identified in WG1 will be analyzed by technical and economic experts through later TERRA activities, in order to pinpoint appropriate regulations for future CR and SDR systems. WG2 addresses “CR/SDR co-existence studies” and will consider the identified deployment scenarios from WG1 to devise and carry out the technical co-existence studies that would result in identification of essential technical rules/conditions for CR/SDR. If you are interested in participating in WG1 and WG2 of COST-TERRA, and/or contributing to the August WG1+WG2 meeting, please contact the leaders of relevant WG/Action using the contact information provided on the COST-TERRA website, preferably by 5 August 2010. Further information and the templates for contributions have been posted on: http://www.cost-terra.org/news/10/67/NB-Call-for-contributions
Proposals Accepted: August 17, 2010 – September 15, 2010
Objective:
Develop agile multiband radios/transceivers that can automatically find and use the most efficient frequencies, modulation waveforms, protocols, etc., for communications satellites Proposals Accepted:
August 17, 2010 – September 15, 2010
Objective:
The objective of this research and development effort is to encourage the genesis of innovative, high performance avionics systems, subsystems, and components that will enhance the capability of successfully achieving early intercept missile defense in current and future interceptors in a hostile environment.
Proposals Accepted:
August 17, 2010 – September 15, 2010
Objective:
Develop and demonstrate conformal antennas suitable for a number of existing missile airframes which are capable of transmitting and receiving an ultra wide bandwidth of frequencies.
Proposals Accepted:
August 17, 2010 – September 15, 2010
Objective:
Develop protocols and software to implement previously un-trusted code within secure communications systems. Leverage the isolation features and other capabilities of real-time operating systems to meet system performance requirements while mitigating information assurance (IA) risks posed by the use of automatic code generators in the development of secure systems. Proposals Accepted:
August 17, 2010 – September 15, 2010
Objective:
Design and assess innovative methods to create adaptive cross-layer wireless networking protocols to achieve network resiliency in contested RF spectra. Proposals Accepted:
August 17, 2010 – September 15, 2010
Objective:
Research, develop and evaluate algorithms and methodologies for discovering and characterizing non-cooperative hidden nodes with selfish or malicious intent operating in real world environments. [TOP]
Articles
xG Technology looks at mission-critical markets
11Aug 2010, Urgent Communications Of all the companies I’ve written about during the past several years, none of them have created as much of a stir as xG Technology, the Florida-based startup that has earned a host of patents for wireless technology breakthroughs and criticism from many on the Internet, claiming that the company was overhyping its solution. …
Embedded systems power down Low-power sensors, microcontrollers, and communications circuits combine to acquire, process, and transmit data in applications ranging from environmental monitoring to health care.
29 July 2010, Rick Nelson, EDN Applications ranging from health care to environmental, structural, and spectrum monitoring are driving the need for low-power sensors that will permeate our world, delivering data that enhances our quality of life. Reporting on ubiquitous sensors in May, Technical Editor Margery Conner estimated that manufacturers will develop and deploy 1000 sensors per person over the next 10 years, amounting to more than 1 trillion sensors. … [TOP]
Press Releases
Fast A/D converters for software-defined radio, signals intelligence introduced by National Semiconductor
11 August 2010, Military and Aerospace Electronics National Semiconductor Corp. in Santa Clara, Calif., is introducing the ADC12D1800 3.6 giga-sample-per-second analog-to-digital converter for software-defined radio, radar processing, signals intelligence (SIGINT), and electronic warfare applications. … ADI works with Altera on SDR wireless platform
11 August 2010, Electronics Weekly Analog Devices has collaborated with Altera on a development platform for applying its DPD (digital pre-distortion) techniques in multi-carrier mobile basestations. … Wireless Innovation Forum Members Set Operations Plan, Meeting Dates for FY2011
10 August 2010, IT Business Net WASHINGTON — The Wireless Innovation Forum (https://winnforum.org) today announced the approval of its 2011 Operations plan by its membership. The Plan includes eight top level objectives in support of the Forum’s Strategic Plan. … 4G chip said to reconfigure in 50µs
10 Aug 2010, New Electronics French research organisation CEA-LETI has developed a digital baseband circuit for software defined radio and cognitive radio applications. According to the body, the chip can reconfigure itself in less than 50µs. … Uzbekistan gets second LTE network
10 August 2010, Mobile Business Briefing Ucell, a subsidiary of Sweden’s TeliaSonera, has deployed an LTE network in Uzbekistan, using equipment from Chinese vendor ZTE. The launch brings together two of the key movers in the fledgling LTE market: TeliaSonera and Uzbekistan. TeliaSonera has already launched commercial LTE services in Norway and Sweden, with a number of pilots underway in other markets. …
Lockheed Martin Announces Successful Demonstration of AMF JTRS Small Airborne Radio at U.S. Army Exercise
AMF JTRS Radio Transmits Data & Video Between Multiple Air and Ground nodes 9 August 2010, Street Insider SAN DIEGO, Bringing the promise of secure, real-time, interoperable communications for warfighters one step closer to reality, the Airborne and Maritime/Fixed Station Joint Tactical Radio System (AMF JTRS) has successfully transferred data and live streaming video over an internet-protocol enabled wideband networking waveform (WNW). … Ultra TCS awarded IDIQ contract for Battlespace IT systems for US DoD
4 August 2010, PR Newswire MONTREAL, – Ultra TCS, the premier global supplier of High Capacity Line-of-Sight (HCLOS(TM)) radio communication systems, today announced that it has been awarded an Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract over seven years. … 4G Wireless Evolution – Altair Semi Readies TD-LTE Reference Design
30 July 30 2010, TMCNet Ultra-low power 4G chipset supplier Altair Semiconductor, has released a new TD-LTE (News – Alert) terminal reference design for use in a range of products, including USB dongles, data cards, CPEs and handheld devices. … ADI – Xilinx collaboration streamlines base station design
29 July 2010, EE Times Europe Analog Devices Inc. has collaborated with Xilinx Inc to introduce a radio architecture development platform that helps multi-carrier cellular base station manufacturers reduce engineering resources and improve time to market.
ADI’s MS-DPD (mixed-signal, digital pre-distortion) development platform simplifies the wireless infrastructure design process by allowing OEMs to quickly assess and reprogram the radio to remove non-linearities from the transmit paths and enhance radio power efficiency. … GEN ELEC : Software Defined Radio, Signals Intelligence, Tactical Communications And Radar Applications To Benefit From New GE FPGA Boards
29 July 2010, 4-Traders.com GE Intelligent Platforms today announced that it will soon launch a range of digital receiver, digital transceiver and FPGA processor products based on the Virtex?-6 FPGA family from Xilinx®. It is planned that these will be followed by new products based on Xilinx’s 7 series devices including the Virtex-7 family. These new platforms will provide the leading edge processing performance and advanced technology required by processing applications such as software defined radio, signals intelligence, tactical communications and radar. … Wireless Innovation Forum Announces Steering Group for Coordinating Committee on International Software Communications Architecture Standards
29 July 2010, Low Power Wireless WASHINGTON, — The Wireless Innovation Forum (https://winnforum.org) today announced the initial Steering Group for the Forum’s Coordinating Committee on International Software Communications Architecture Standards (CC SCA). … Research and Markets: SDR and CR Technologies Revolutionize Wireless Communications in both the Military and Commercial Market Segments
29 July 2010, TMC Net DUBLIN Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/975c3d/sdr_cr_strategi) has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan’s (News – Alert) new report “SDR & CR: Strategic Portfolio Management” to their offering.
This research service provides an assessment of key component technology areas within the Software Defined Radio and Cognitive Radio space, and offers insights and recommendations for managing the R&D portfolio effectively. … Xilinx Improves Design Flow for Industry’s Only Proven Partial Reconfiguration FPGA Technology with ISE Design Suite 12.2
ISE 12.2 Delivers New Partial Reconfiguration Design Flow and 24 Percent Reduction in BRAM Power Consumption with Intelligent Clock Gating
29 July 2010, Business Wire India Bangalore, Karnataka, India, – Xilinx Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX) has announced the availability of its fourth generation partial reconfiguration design flow and new improvements to its intelligent clock gating technology that deliver a 24 percent reduction in dynamic block-RAM (BRAM) power consumption in Virtex®-6 FPGA designs. … Spectrum Launches Linux-Based PCI Express XMC Carrier in a High Performance Intel(R) Server
20 July 2010, MarketWire BURNABY, BRITISH COLUMBIA — Spectrum Signal Processing by Vecima (TSX:VCM) (“Spectrum”), trusted supplier to top defense prime contractors worldwide for more than 20 years, today announced the availability of an extremely powerful and flexible Linux-based signal processing platform: the SDR-2010. The SDR-2010 is an Intel® 64 Architecture Server hosting the new high-performance PRO-2910 PCI Express based carrier cards, each with dual XMC/PMC sites. This unique configuration gives all the flexibility and processing power of an embedded signal processing system while using an Intel®-based server or PC as the host. The PRO-2910 carrier and the associated modules have already shipped to leading defense clients. … [TOP] | 
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