Defense Leaders to Unveil Space Comms Project

TM Forum has confirmed details of a new defense-related Technology Catalyst project. Key players from the global defense industry – including Booz Allen Hamilton, QinetiQ Ltd, NATO C3 Agency, DAX Technologies, Thales Communications, John Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab and Progress Software – will converge at Management World 2009 to demonstrate the results of this collaborative project, which focuses on improving the operational agility and real-time management of complex space networks.

The project looks at the end-to-end operation and multiple aspects of services that enable network-centric operations with IP-based space communications management systems. The demonstration – part of TM Forum’s Technology Innovation Zone at Management World – will illustrate how policy-based management and TM Forum Solution Frameworks can be applied and extended to create a comprehensive operational solution to dynamically manage multi-operator space technologies.

TM Forum’s Technology Catalyst program delivers the environment for companies to work together, tackling management challenges in an environment that fosters an accelerated process for identifying deployable, cost-effective solutions.