The document summarizes the European Defense Agency's (EDA) role and activities related to space, with a focus on satellite communications (SATCOM). It discusses how the EDA supports the European Union and member states in developing secure SATCOM capabilities. Specifically, it outlines two EDA SATCOM initiatives - the European SatCom Procurement Cell (ESCPC) pilot project for commercial SATCOM procurement, and the concept of Secure Telecom by Satellite (SECTELSAT) to establish pooled and shared access to governmental SATCOM by 2020. The document emphasizes that the EDA serves as a "hub" to facilitate cooperation on SATCOM and other space-related defense capabilities in Europe.

1. Military Space Conference 2012, Vienna, 27 March 2012
Rodolphe Paris, SATCOM, SSA Project Officer
Space – European perspective
EDA Contribution to the European Space

2. The EU: EU Council – EEAS – EDA
European Council
Heads of States
Guidelines Defence &
EDA Foreign Affairs Foreign
Steering Board Reports Council Affairs
Defence Ministers
Ministers Chair Political and Security
Committee Ambassadors
European Chief ChiefsMilitary
EU of
European External
Defence Agency Executive Committee
Defence
Action Service
The mission of the Agency is to support the Council and the Member States
in their effort to improve the EU’s defence capabilities in the field of crisis
management and to sustain the CSDP.
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3. Space and Security (CSDP) – EU Space Policy
• Council Conclusions, 1-Jun-2011, art. 17
- “INVITES the Commission, in close collaboration with Member
States and after consultation with ESA and EDA to evaluate the
need for improvements of the available space infrastructure to
develop secure services based on the integration of global
satellite communications, earth observation and
positioning”…
• Space Council Orientations, 6-Dec-2011, art. 22
- RECOGNIZES that SATCOM represent a key capability in any
crisis response and crisis management operation, and a highly
crucial and scarce resource, especially when ground infrastructures
are damaged or destroyed, and RECOMMENDS the European
Commission, EEAS and Member States, with the support of EDA, to
work towards a secure and guaranteed access to
commercial and governmental satellite communications
for crisis response and crisis management actors;
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4. Space Policy – EDA Role
• Space is a shared competence (EU/MS)
• EDA as a ‘SPACE hub’ (forum) for SATCOM, SSA, ISR
- Requirements collection, cooperative projects and programmes
- Research activities, technological demonstrators
• EDA support on GNSS, EO, Space R&T
- Galileo PRS, EO calibration, critical space technologies for European non-dependence
• Task Force on Civil-Military Synergies
• EDA-ESA Cooperation (Administrative Arrangement)
- Case#1: SATCOM for UAS Command & Control Demonstration
- Case#2: ISR (Capability Package Assessment)
- Case#3: SATCOM infrastructure (ETISC, SECTELSAT work strands)
(Developed in next slides)
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5. SATCOM Pooling & Sharing (P&S)
EU MoD initiative
• EU Member States are putting
pressure to P&S Defence assets
- Lower budgets… how to mitigate?
• EDA Steering Board, 30 Nov
2011 identified SATCOM to P&S
- Ministers have endorsed a list, incl.
ESCPC and Future MILSATCOM
• SATCOM
- EDA is setting up projects in line with
political guidance
• ESCPC
• SECTELSAT (Future MILSATCOM)
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6. European SatCom Procurement Cell (ESCPC)
• ESCPC overcomes fragmented
procurement of commercial SATCOM
within European Defence
- Establish a “Pilot” Cell within EDA (2012 -2014)
• Milestones:
- 2009 project launch approval by EU MoDs
- Q2 2012: operations
• Instrument (legal basis):
- “Ad Hoc” Project (FR, IT, PL, RO, UK)
- More Member States, EU, 3rd party
• ESCPC major benefits:
- Flexible: ‘’Pay-Per-Use”, non-exclusive
sourcing
- Economical: No membership fees, VAT-free
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7. Military Satellite Communication (MILSATCOM)
Window of opportunity in 2012-2015
2010 2015 2020 2025 time
2000 2005 2030
SKYNET 5
SYRACUSE 3
bars show
Sicr-2/Ath-Fidus lifetime of
SICRAL 1-1b existing
SECOMSAT spacecraft
SATCOM-Bw
• End of life of European current MILSATCOM assets : around 2020
• Window of opportunity will not show again before 15-20 years
• Decisions to be taken within the next 2 years
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8. MILSATCOM in 2012: segregated assets
• 10+ different satellites for 5 separate, almost dedicated systems
• Risk: duplication of R&T investments, of operating costs, etc.
• So far very little Pooling & Sharing achieved, made by NATO.
NSP2K Capability
Package
(2003-2017)
Other MS have EU does not
no access to have its
MILSATCOM others Capability
others
Package
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9. MILSATCOM in 2020:
EDA Concept of Secure Telecom by Satellite (SECTELSAT)
• Common requirements
• Civil-Military R&T investments Synergies: >1 billion €
• Coordinated acquisition
• P&S of assets and operations
Pooling & Sharing (P&S) Benefits: “cross-use” of SATCOM, EU-wide
 EU MS
 EU CSDP Capability
New Users
others
others
Package (2020+)
 P&S between existing ‘MILSATCOM’ nations
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10. EDA & European Space – The Take-Away
• EDA as the Hub for Defence… and Space
- Duality (for/by defence and security)
• EDA-ESA Cooperation (Administrative Arrangement)
• Space in the EDA Capability Development Plan (CDP)
• SATCOM twice in the EU Defence Pooling & Sharing
- ESCPC as a ‘Quick-Win’ (commercial SATCOM)
- Governmental SATCOM: EDA concept ‘Secure Telecom by
Satellite’
• EDA Member States: it’s all about political BUY-IN.
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