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Rodolphe Paris, Space Project Officer

EDA, and Space perspectives EDA SATCOM Activities

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The EU: EU Council – EEAS – EDA

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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.

European Council

Defence

Ministers

Foreign Affairs

Council

Political and Security

Committee

EDA

Steering Board

EU Military

Committee European

Defence Agency

Guidelines

Reports

Chair

European External

Action Service

Heads of States

Defence &

Foreign

Affairs

Ministers

Ambassadors

Chief

Executive

Chiefs of

Defence

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Landscaping European Defence sector

• Defence Expenditure :

194 B€

• Defence Investment :

41,99 B€

• Operations and

Maintenance

Expenditures: 44,11 B€

• 51% of defence budgets

spent on personnel

• 21% spent on investment

• 13% of Defence R&T and

22% of equipm. proc. with

other European countries

BUDGET PEOPLE EQUIPMENT

• Number of Military

Personnel: 1 620 188

• 68 000 military deployed

of total 1.7 million

military

• Average Number of

Troops deployed: 66 313

• Direct Employment in

Aerospace and Defence

Industries: 704 200

• 23 different types

Armoured Fighting

Vehicles

• 4 main battle tanks

• 3 fighter aircraft in

production

• 7 types of armed

helicopters

• 89 major platform

programmes

• 16 national naval

shipyards

• 5 MILSATCOM

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Genesis and rationale

Cooperation is

no longer an

option:

IT’S TIME

TO DO MORE

TOGETHER

Fragmentation

of requirements

Constraint on

Defence

budgets

Member States

operational

engagements

Diverging

demand

Lack of

interoperability

“Thinking

national”

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A catalyst: from Member States to Member States

• Improving Europe‟s defence performance

• The only one whose Steering Board meets at the

level of Defence Ministers

• Structure totally unique

• Flexibility = tool at service of Member States

• Head of the Agency = Catherine Ashton

• Chief Executive = Claude-France Arnould

• 26 Member States (all EU except Denmark)

+ Norway & Switzerland

• ~120 staff members

“The place to go” for European Defence Capabilities

& Cooperation

Catherine Ashton

Head of the Agency

Claude-France Arnould,

Chief Executive

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Mission

… to support

the Council and the Member

States in their effort to improve

the European Union’s defence

capabilities for the Common

Security and Defence Policy.

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EDA at a glance

A capability multiplier

A tool for Member States

Innovative and valuable solutions

Cooperation that works

TOGETHER FOR A STRONGER EUROPE

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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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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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SATCOM Update EDA SATCOM Activities

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SATCOM Pooling & Sharing (P&S) EU MoDs‟ 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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SATCOM – EDA Work Strands

Operations (Service Provision)

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 202.

2nd Work Strand: Medium Term Needs

European Tactical Interim SatCom Capability (ETISC) (Small Satellite, Hosted Payload, Etc.?)

3rd Work Strand: Long Term Needs

Secure Telecommunication by Satellite (SECTELSAT) (Next Generation of MilSatCom)

1st Work Strand: Short Term Needs

ESCPC (European SatCom Procurement Cell)

EDA Ad Hoc Project

Study, Requirements, Contracting

SATCOM: 3 Pooling & Sharing Opportunities

Contributing Member States

others

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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

- Q3 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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European Tactical Interim SATCOM (ETISC) Trying a kind of European hosted payload story?

• 2013-2014: Complementary study, if needed

• 2013-2014: Ad Hoc Programme Preparation (Business Case…)

• 2014-2016: EDA Category B Programme? (link with OCCAr/ESA?)

Landscaping

Q2-2012

Q4-2012

Architecture

Modelling

2012-13

Additional Study?

2013-14

ETISC

Ad Hoc

Programme

?

(Depending on Member States Buy-In)

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Military Satellite Communication (MILSATCOM) Window of opportunity in 2012-2015

• 2017-2025: Renewal of all MILSATCOM assets. How to fill this future capability gap?

• FR+IT bilateral cooperation SICRAL-2 + Athena-Fidus. Next one: FR+UK?

• EDA structured approach to promote future cooperation with ad hoc instruments

time 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025 2030 2000

SKYNET 5

SYRACUSE 3

Sicr-2/Ath-Fidus SICRAL 1-1b

SATCOM-Bw

SECOMSAT

bars show

lifetime of

existing

spacecrafts

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MILSATCOM in 2012: segregated assets

NSP2K Capability

Package (2003-2017)

• 10+ different satellites for 5 separate, almost dedicated systems

• So far very little Pooling & Sharing achieved, made by NATO.

• Risk for the next generation: big investments, less money

EU does not

have its

Capability

Package

Other MS have

little access to

MILSATCOM others others

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MILSATCOM in 2020: EDA Concept of Secure Telecom by Satellite (SECTELSAT)

• Common requirements

• Civil-Military R&T investments

• Coordinated acquisition

• P&S of assets and operations

EU CSDP Capability

Package (2020+) others

others

EU MS

New Users

Pooling & Sharing (P&S) Benefits: “cross-use” of SATCOM, EU-wide

Synergies: >>1 billion €

P&S between existing „MILSATCOM‟ nations

NATO Capability

Package (2018+)

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SECTELSAT: possible Roadmap and proposed Work Streams

2015 2020 2035

Phases A+B (Feasibility +

Design)

Phases C+D (Development + Production)

Phase E (Operations)

2012

Programme

Phasing

R&T

Stream

Capability Stream

Common

Requirements

Arm. + Industry

Cooperation,

Procurement…

Group

of

MoDs

SATCOM

Industry

3 Work

Streams

Acquisition Strategy? PPP?

Ad Hoc / Multilateral Programme?

EU Funding (2020+)?

NATO SATCOM 2020 CP: European Bid?

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Future MILSATCOM / SECTELSAT key points

• Synergy on space segment (economies of scale with recurrent models)

• Synergy on ground segment (anchor stations for C2 (TT&C))

• Synergy avoiding duplication of R&T investments (ESA, EU budgets)

• Synergy on operations

• Contribution of the EU Budget ? For a future EU Capability Package?

(2020+) for Common Security and Defence Policy

- To be investigated

• “European” MoU (FR+IT+UK…) for the NATO SATCOM 2020 Capability

Package (CP) addressing the right subset of the CP?

- Lean/Flexi “Core” (Protected SHF) + “Extended Core” (non-protected SHF) +

Augmentation

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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)

- ETISC studies in close partnership

• 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‟

(SECTELSAT)

• EDA Member States: it‟s all about political BUY-IN.

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Thank you for your attention!