Sponsoring Organization: CANEUS and Office of Naval Research-Global

The CANEUS Shared SmallSat? CSSP International Workshop is organized by representatives from the CANEUS Organization, the ONRG (Office of Naval Research Global), the NRL (Naval Research Laboratory), the NURC (NATO Undersea Research Center), and organizations representing the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa, e.g. Italian Space Agency, NATO, UN, Several Others. CANEUS is a global non-profit organization set up primarily for the collaborative development and advancement of Micro and Nano Technologies (MNT) for Aerospace and Defence applications.

Venue: NURC, La Spezia, Italy

Marina di Carrara (MS) - ITALY

Event Attendance (Government, Industry, etc): Government, Industry

We expect to receive 400 international experts and participants, representing stakeholders from all segments of the international space and maritime community, including technology providers, end-users, and policy-makers.

Participants will include military, maritime authorities and law enforcement agencies, government-sponsored "watch­dogs", non-governmental, private voluntary, and international organizations, and industry.

In addition to the notable lead speakers that would be addressing the event, the list of speakers and participants is expected to include representatives from the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa regions.

• Over 120 World Expert "Invited Speakers"

• 90% of Global Satellite based AIS and Data Extraction industry representative in attendance
• 400 Participants representing 80+ countries
• 60% of Participants are expected End-Users, Buyers, Decision Makers, and Program Managers

Keynote Speakers: (tbd)

Event Schedule:

http://www.caneus.org/sharedsmallsats/content.aspx?ID=program

The Workshop has a unique flow-down format which emphasizes, as its primary deliverables: an international framework to unite potential participants in this cooperative undertaking; the issues, costs and benefits involved; what prospective stakeholders can expect to gain by participation; and a system management model.

Given the extremely focused workshop objectives and the tight time constraints, each invited speaker at the workshop will be a leader in the field, describing his or her organization's work in the context of the broader global picture. As a participant, you will be able to provide yuor input to influence the potential Concept of Operation and international cooperation framework enabled by such a capability.

Benefits of Attending: participate in defining concepts, infrastructure, end-users, services and issues for Global Awareness Data Extraction International Satellite constellation

The Workshop will develop concepts, timelines and a budget estimate for a low-cost, internationally shared small satellite communications backbone in space with exceptionally low barriers to entry for participating nations. The purpose of this constellation is to make possible data collection from ships at sea and from distributed sensors in locations where conventional communications infrastructure is lacking: the "unwired", and often under-governed, regions of the globe. We estimate that 84% of the globe - the high seas, the polar regions, jungles, and deserts - are effectively unwired. Data which builds knowledge of activities and conditions in these remote areas underpins responsible control, enhancing safety and security for countries worldwide.

The core premise of this Workshop is that a multi-national, shared infrastructure will promote cooperation, trust and interdependence, to the mutual benefit of all partners. Furthermore, complementary skill sets and resources from across nations will be needed to rapidly and cost-effectively transform emerging concepts into this shared communications infrastructure, which is designed to retrieve data collected in unwired regions, with minimum latency, for fusion, analysis, and action.

This Workshop represents a unique and ambitious attempt to bring together the users of ship position and other sensor data, small satellite system developers, space infrastructure, ground support, and services providers, funding communities and policy-makers with stake in collective safety, security and prosperity, from across the world. By convening this broad cross-section of stakeholders, the Workshop will take a practical approach to overcoming technical and programmatic challenges, including: data gathering, data handling, and data distribution concepts, small sat constellation systems and technologies, frequency allocation and bandwidth constraints, legal policies and regulatory considerations, and collaborative framework models.

Event Cost: (cost model in development)

Registration Open May 1, 2010

Additional Event Information:

The vision for this international workshop is in line with national and international Cooperative Security strategies to promote safety, security, protection of the environment, and global economic development. Our national commitment to engagement is manifest in programs and projects across all dimensions of international relations.

The proposed international capability would contribute a data transport "space segment" accessible to all countries through "fractional ownership" in the satellite constellation. While the ability of developing nations to contribute funds may be limited, the concept of fractional ownership would allow each country to participate at a level commensurate with their capabilities, and to use the shared communications backbone in space in some measure commensurate with their contribution to the program.

To the extent that data delivered through such international capability are shared, as AIS data from land-based receivers are now shared, participating nations become part of a new global security network by reducing the ease with which "unwired" areas become "ungoverned." Space, with the "God's Eye" view of the world, unites nations more than any other domain.

Creation of such an international system would make collaboration in space accessible to all nations, and would promote its use to foster governance in the difficult, "unwired" regions of the world.

The satellite constellation, when fully populated, would host communications payloads chosen to foster awareness of activity in "unwired" areas of the globe, and to enable better governance based on that awareness.

Examples of the kind of information that might use such capability as a transmission path could include: ships' automatic identification system (AIS) signals from the open ocean, environmental data from sensors in the polar regions and deserts, seismic sensors indicating activity in the rain forests and border regions of the world. The proposed constellation of satellites would provide nearly continuous coverage of the entire globe for low bandwidth data streams, and it would be available to all countries, large and small, which participate as members of the consortium.

The CANEUS Shared SmallSat? CSSP International Workshop aims to:

• Provide participants and potential stakeholders with an interactive, in-depth assessment of current end-user requirements for AIS and data exfiltration to support short term and potential long term requirements, including potential new applications. This assessment would also help identify and address outstanding issues with current AIS and data exfiltration systems, such as, safety, security, privacy, infrastructure care and feeding cost, policies on data sharing, vulnerabilities to interference, reliability, and authentication.

• Present program factors with the active participation and contributions of attendees to articulate data gathering, data handling, and data distribution concepts; Small Sat Constellation Systems and Technologies; AIS and data exfiltration Applications.

• Facilitate international partnership by addressing challenges to collaborative framework models. Issues to be discussed include: proposed data formats, assigned frequencies and bandwidth; legal policies and considerations; regulatory considerations; and proposed Consortium scope, structure, roadmap and ROM funding.

Event Point of Contact: Milind Pimprikar, mp@caneus.org

Milind Pimprikar

Founder & Chairman

CANEUS International, and

Centre for Large Space Structures & Systems

Tel: 514-499-3959

Cell: 514-267-2434

http://www.caneus.org/

www.caneus.org/sharedsmallsats or www.caneus.org/cssp

www.caneus.org/MNTforSpace

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