Radio Spectrum
Radio communications are required at all levels and access to radio frequency is a key enabler for any operation. The challenge is to preserve and guarantee radio frequency resources to new capabilities and armament programmes. This requires the monitoring of developments on radio spectrum policy and spectrum management activities which impacts the military use of spectrum.
The EDA Steering Board adopted the generic role of EDA in Radio spectrum activities in March 2010. It is:
1. To provide a forum to discuss and exchange national views on radio spectrum (RS) matters with military implications between participating Member States (pMS);
2. To define, to the extent possible, coordinated European military radio spectrum views and requirements for military uses;
3. To co-ordinate and provide input and support to EDA projects with military radio spectrum issues;
4. To provide military input, to be adopted by EDA SB, to Commission working groups on radio spectrum issues.
This role includes taking any appropriate action to identify and provide possible solutions concerning radio frequency resources required for the development of capabilities needed in the framework of CSDP (Common Security and Defence Policy) or its evolution.
A such, EDA supports the Council and the Member States in their effort to improve the EU’s defence capabilities and as such, must be forward looking in the spectrum requirements implied by these capabilities. The CDP update in 2010 confirmed this domain as a priority (Core Driver/Environment).
A Project Team is in charge of these activities. Its work programme is mainly influenced by work strands with international dimension (European with EC and CEPT activities and International with the World Radiocommunication Conference process). The PT regularly meets 3 times a year. In its first years of existence the PT has contributed to the overall initiative of the Unmanned Air Systems insertion into the General Air Traffic (e.g. the SIGAT Study on Insertion of UAS in General Air Traffic).
The project team is currently chaired by France. The Chairman is assisted in his task by the Radio Spectrum Project Officer, an EDA staff member.
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