Military Wireless Conference

About MWC Conference:

The MWC Conference is by invitation only due to limited space. The invitees range from DOD PM's and acquisitions personnel to representatives of end users. The presentations are carefully chosen to represent most promising technological directions that industry and DOD might take in the future with emphasis on what is most economically feasible. And the themes are generally focused on most pertinent. Examples of themes in the past are secure cell phone architectures, the advantages of cell phones in the battle field, and moving toward a more economical DOD cell phone implementation.

Next Military Wireless Conference will be toward the latter half of 2013

Check back for times and location. Delay is due to DOD wide memo regarding conferences.

To request topics or an invitation to the next MWC Conference or future conferences please contact John Gibson at: jhgibson@nps.edu. MWC tentatively for 2013, please see Conference Registration Form (doc).

Previous MWC Conferences:

Aug 1 and 2, 2012

Many of the briefs for this conference were requested to be private. To request a brief please contact jhgibson@nps.edu.

• USAF Wireless Initiatives, Charles Menza, COL, Air Staff
• War-fighter Waveform Tactics, William Edwards, SPAWAR LANT
• LTE as an Inter-ship Communications Service, Al Thomas, CAPT. USN (Ret), OCEUS
• INMARSAT Game Changing Directions, J.J. Shaw, INMARSAT
• Fuel Cells: Current Capabilities and Support for UAV's and Portable Applications, Deryn Chu (AFRL) and Brian Holloway (DARPA)
• Autonomous Aerial Cargo Utility System, Azi Sharif, ONR
• SAGE-OptiPortal Device-Agnostic Network-Enabled Display, Jeff Weekley, NPS MOVES Institute
• Lighthouse -- a COTS and Open Source Development Approach for Mobile Device Applications for Socio-Cultural Intelligence Data Management, Michael Stevens and LTC Max Moore, NPS CORE Lab
• Emergency Telephone Service Requirements for Commercial Cellular (LTE) Dave Nolan, HQ DHS
• Public Service Next Generation Cellular, Walter Magnussen, Texas A&M University
• Challenges and Solutions for Reducing Response Time in Urban Search and Rescue, Radu Stoleru, Texas A&M University
• Disaster Response Communications, Norman Jones, AASKI
• Lessons Learned for Afghanistan Deployments, Larry Wentz, NDU
• PEAK and MiDAS, Phil Stockdale, NDU
• Status Update on Hand Held Initiatives, Capt. Dixon MARCORSYSCOM, and Ted Theofilak, SigCOE Battle Lab
• NPS Research, UAV Communication Relay, Jose Menjivar, MAJ Marines

Feb 7 and 8, 2012

Many of the briefs for this conference were requested to be private. To request a brief please contact jhgibson@nps.edu.

• DOD CIO Office, Rocky Young (brief not available)
• Net Warrior Overview Briefing, Stu Abrahamson and Maj. Doug Copeland ( pdf *1 )
• DISA CTO Office, Greg Youst ( pptx *1)
• Adoption of New Ideas, Peter Denning, NPS ( pdf )
• Disruption Tolerant Networking, JPL Briefing ( pptx *1 pdf *1,*2 converted PDF incomplete)
• DISA MVNO Status Brief, Vincent Nguyen (brief not available)
• HQMC Mobile and Wireless Initiatives, Anthony Soules ( ppt *1)
• Solar Cell Optical (LASER) Communication, Lt. Brian Phillips, USN, and Lt. Joseph Foster, USN ( pdf )
• Mobile Broadband Way Forward, William Edwards, SPAWAR Systems Center Atlantic ( ppt *3 )
• A Cellular Architecture in Support of Nation Building, Tao Rocha, SPAWAR (brief not available)
• ARMY Test And Evaluation Command Briefing ( pptx *1, pdf *1,*2 )

July 19-20, 2011

• Mobile Wireless Industry Analysis -- Gartner Research (pptx *3 ) (pdf *3 )
• Commercial SATCOM Near and Mid term Architecture -- Jack Deasy (pptx) (pdf)
• Wireless Security, Test, and Evaluation -- Dave Aland (pptx) (pdf)
• Marine Forces Experimental Center -- Scott Hourin (pptx) (pdf)
• MARCORSYSCOM PG-11 Program Status -- Erik Gardner and Capt Josh Dixon
• Reach Back Architecture for Tactical Cellular Networks -- Russ Chan (ppsx)
• Dismounted Situational Awareness for the Infantry and Marines UK -- Justin Prowse and Greg Moore (ppt *3 ) (pdf *3 )
• Closing Q&A -- Fulp (ppt) (pdf)
• NPS Research

1. Hastily Formed Networks and Communication in Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Relief -- Brian Steckler
2. Authentication via Natural Language Processing -- Prof. Dennis Volpano (pdf)
3. Cellular Based Sensor Networks -- Prof. Neil Rowe (pptx) (pdf)
4. MLS Port to Intel Atom Processor -- Paul Clark (pptx) (pdf)
5. Ad-hoc Cellular Networking -- MWC sponsored Prof. YoungJoon Byun, CSUMB (ppt) (pdf)
6. Disruption Tolerant Networks -- MWC sponsored Prof. Sathya Narayanan, CSUMB (ppt) (pdf)
7. Dragon Pulse: A Semantic Database Used for Rapid Application Development on Handheld Devices -- Dr. Tom Anderson
8. Residual Network Data on Android Devices -- LT Greg Cardwell and Prof. Rob Beverly (pdf)
9. JTRS wave form performance in RF simulated operational environments -- LCDR Frederic (Drew) Borries
10. Lighthouse: A handheld intelligence support platform -- MWC Sponsored Capt Carrick Longley (ppt) (pdf)

*Note: added pdf files converted from original by MWC for all users to access.

Jan 11-12, 2011: Conference focus on cell phone procurement, policy, Objectives, and costs

• Sprint Commercial infrastructure
• SiRRAN Business Case for Government MNVO
• T-Mobile VOIP / Cellular handoffs Technology Brief
• HTC Strategy Office -- handheld security
• Space Data Corp. Business Case
• I MEF -- Near Space Communications Relay and ISR
• NSA i851 office initiatives and overview
• JTRS PEO -- Program Status Update
• DARPA -- SAFER Program
• DARPA -- TRUST Program
• SPAWAR Pacific -- Android Application Development with Widgets
• SPAWAR Atlantic -- Perspectives of Army and Navy Requirements
• NPS Research

June 14-15, 2010: Conference focus on Secure cell phones: Operating Systems, how secure are cell phones now, possible future extensions

• Cebrowski Institute Projects
• Industry MILS Brief (Lynux Works)
• Industry Mobile Computing Brief (Reality Mobile)
• Industry Voice Security Brief (CellCrypt)
• Industry MILS Brief (Greenhills)
• Industry Distributed Storage Brief (Google)
• Disaster Relief After-Action Results (Haiti Team, Hastily Formed Networks, NPS)
• Joint Program Executive Office (JPEO) Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Brief
• US Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Brief
• Micro Aerial Vehicle Visualization of Unexplored Environments Projects (MAV-VUE) (MIT)
• NPS Research:

1. DTN Routing
2. Author Detection Using Cell Phone SMS
3. Authorship Detection Using Multimodal Feature
4. Distributed File System for Cellular Phones
5. Multi-level Security
6. Tiny Scope

Jan 20-21, 2010: Conference focus on capabilities of cell phones, and security

• Ericsson (3G Cellular) Technology Discussion (Don Horton, Ericsson Federal)
• OpenBTS (Open Source Base Station) Technology Discussion (David Burgess, Kestrel)
• JTRS VTC Presentation (Jarratt Mowery, JTRS)
• Soldier Warrior Lessons Learned (Rob Shively, Soldier Warrior)
• Software Defined Radio (SDR) Brief / Discussion (Frank Kragh, NPS)
• 3G/4G Exploitation Discussion (Vicente Garcia, NPS)
• 4G Technology Discussion (John McEachen, NPS)
• Concept of Deployment Discussion (Capt. Josh Dixon, NPS)

*1 Note: password protected -- to receive a password please contact jhgibson@nps.edu.
*2 Note: added pdf and html files converted from original by MWC for all users to access.
*3 Note: Access from within NPS, password protected.