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Network technology keeping us safe
The situation is tense: an unidentified helicopter has flown into secure airspace. A nearby rescue aircraft has been dispatched to intercept it and capture critical visual data. The images and positioning information are then shared with command central as well as police and coast guard services via a 3G network. Everyone is on alert.
June 8, 2006
This is fortunately only a simulation but scenarios where different security forces need to share critical information are extremely relevant to today's societies. Such issues, covered by the term network-centric security, will be the focus of the Network Centric Warfare conference in London, June 5-8.
Major-General Svante Bergh (retired), vice president of Strategic Marketing, Ericsson Microwave Systems, explains: "Network-centric refers to the possibility to share situational information in real time, independent of the technology used to capture the information."
Security organizations around the world are going though a dramatic transformation from one-to-one communication to network-based communications. At both the national and international levels, security organizations are addressing the need to cooperate more with each other and share information. The conference in London is the primary forum in Europe for military representatives to learn more about this trend and the enabling technologies.
"Network-centric applications make it possible for example, for a situational picture, taken from military radar, to be used by the coast guard or police force simultaneously," Bergh says. Network-centric applications are made possible by some of the same key technologies in which Ericsson is a telecommunications industry leader.
The Swedish military, with the help of Ericsson, was one of the first armed forces to implement network-centric applications. "We now want to get other countries to use similar technologies. Swedish missions going abroad should be able to cooperate with other forces without problems,"
Bergh says.
He will lead a seminar at the London conference where he will discuss different theories behind implementing network-centric applications as well as some practical examples. He will also discuss some of the lessons learned when he was an active member of the Swedish Armed Forces. Bergh has personal knowledge of the subject from his time as the general responsible for all international military cooperation with the Swedish Armed Forces and was part of setting up their network-centric communications.
Ericsson recently made it to the shortlist of vendors proposing a border-control system for the US government. This is an area which has enormous growth potential and Ericsson will show at the London conference that it is a leader in providing solutions and support for network-centric communications for national security.
