Project description
Innovative satellite communication service for crisis management
EU efforts to safeguard citizens and their freedoms include bolstering resilience against natural and man-made disasters. The EU’s GOVSATCOM programme provides secure and cost-effective satellite communication services to governmental stakeholders within the EU, as well as security organisations, EU agencies, and institutions. It consolidates SATCOM demand and facilitates the sharing of SATCOM service supply. In this context, the EU-funded GEXTRECS project aims to showcase an end-to-end GOVSATCOM service tailored for crisis management. The project will develop a prototype Dynamic Planner for optimising SATCOM resource allocation and will integrate a Network Balancer for enhancing interoperability. GEXTRECS will demonstrate the synergies of GOVSATCOM with other components of the EU Space Programme and exhibit innovation in two distinct end-user environments.
Objective
Protecting citizens and freedoms is one of the four European Union priorities in its 2019-2024 strategic agenda, with a priority to increase the EU's resilience against both natural and man-made disasters. The EU’s autonomy and independence is essential to implement the common security policy, including the governmental communications. SATCOM represents the ideal communication means for covering large geographical areas or operations deployed in remote or isolated sites. The European Union Governmental Satellite Communications (EU GOVSATCOM) Programme aims at providing secure, guaranteed and cost-effective SATCOM services to EU governmental stakeholders, such as Member States (MS) and related security organisations and EU Agencies or institutions with special emphasis on civilians. Its concept relies on the aggregation of the SATCOM demand and the pooling & sharing of the SATCOM service supply.
GEXTRECS will define and demonstrate an End-to-End GOVSATCOM Service supporting Crisis Management. GEXTRECS will: 1/ prototype the Dynamic Planner, in order to de-risk an important GOVSATCOM Ground segment element, in order to enable dynamic SATCOM resources allocation in the most optimal manner, making use of advance heuristics; 2/ integrate a Network Balancer, which will enable the required interoperability ensuring that secure communications are preserved when using different communications networks; 3/ illustrate GOVSATCOM synergies with other components of EU Space Programme.
The GEXTRECS innovation will be demonstrated in two use cases (land and maritime) in real End-User environments, while exploiting synergies with other EU Space Programme components such as Copernicus and Galileo. Annual demonstrations will simulate exercises in land cross-border and multinational maritime use cases.
GEXTRECS partners covers the full SATCOM added value chain with GMV, HISDESAT, TTCOMM and the End-Users (ISAR, CSIC) complemented by POLSA as hub of the ENTRUSTED Network Of Users.
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HORIZON.2.4 - Digital, Industry and Space
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28760 Tres Cantos
Spain
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