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5G COMPAD (Communications for Peacekeeping and Defence)

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5G COMPAD connects partners from European telecom and defence industries, who will work together on developing the communication system architecture and specifications as well as create joint testbeds to demonstrate the integration of 5G standalone networks with existing defence infrastructures.

This approach combines the use of commercial and defence hardware and software components. The established 5G network procedures that are enhanced with domain-specific orchestration functions provide interoperability between the triad of defence communication systems, public 4G and 5G operator networks, and 5G national security networks across coalition members from the EU.

Goal
5G seeks to break down the challenges faced by European armed forces, which currently rely on expensive hardware-locked communications with limited interoperability and data rates.

The project will provide a robust high-speed communication system and enable the rapid introduction of new capabilities by:

  • designing a reference architecture for 5G-based communications system compatible with existing systems and platforms, and;
  • enabling the recurrent integration of 5G.

This will ensure sustained information superiority for operational success across the conflict spectrum (including peacetime, grey-zone and armed conflicts).

Lead Partner
SAAB (Sweden)

Partners involved
Ericsson (Sweden), Rheinmetall (Germany), Bittium (Finalnd), Nokia (Finland), Thales (France), Leonardo (Italy), INSTER (Spain), Eight Bells Hellas PC (Greece), Intracom Defence (Greece), CAFA Tech (Estonia), Telenor Group (Norway), Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), LMT (Latvia), Austrian Institute of Technology, Synkzone (Sweden), BHE (Hungary), APR Technologies AB (Sweden), CNIT (National, Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunciations) (Italy), Fraunhofer (Germany), The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), Space Hellas (Greece)”

Duration
December 2022 – December 2025

Funding
Co-financed by the European Defence Fund

More information: https://5gcompad.eu/

The European Commission’s support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents, which reflect the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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