Wireless Innovation Forum Achievement Award: SVFuA receives Technology of the Year award

Munich (ots) - The Wireless Innovation Forum announced the winners
of their annual Achievement Awards at the Wireless Innovation Forum
Conference on Communications Technologies and Software Defined Radio
(WInnComm 2017). SVFuA, the software defined radio (SDR) system for
joint and combined operations developed for the German Federal Armed
Forces (Bundeswehr), was honored as Technology of the Year. It
supports the WInnForum objective of enabling coalition
interoperability. As the lead industry partner in the SVFuA project,
Rohde & Schwarz facilitates this approach with its waveform
development environment.

The Technology of the Year award is presented to an individual or
organization selected by the members for a breakthrough product or
technology in the field of software defined or cognitive radio.

The objective of the SVFuA project was to develop a software
defined radio (SDR) system for the German Federal Armed Forces for
joint and combined operations. It was successfully completed in June
2016. In June 2017, following many years of joint development, the
Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and
In-Service Support (BAAINBw) signed a contract with Rohde & Schwarz
for the procurement of the SVFuA. The SVFuA gives the German Armed
Forces all the tools needed to create and especially protect
information superiority. It also ensures interfaces with allies
during joint missions and for collective defense.

Bosco Novak, Executive Vice President Secure Communications
Division at Rohde & Schwarz, said, "We are honored to receive this
recognition of our pioneering achievement from the Wireless
Innovation Forum, an organization of experts dedicated to technology
innovation in communications around the world. We are proud to
support the German Armed Forces with the SVFuA system for secure and
interoperable, state-of-the-art tactical communications."

Both the radio platform and the waveforms are certified as
compliant with the WINNF endorsed standard Software Communications
Architecture (SCA) version 2.2.2. The certificates of SCA compliance
were issued by the German Federal Armed Forces Technical Center for
Information Technology and Electronics (WTD 81). The WTD 81 is the
first European test lab to issue a certificate of SCA compliance, and
SVFuA is the first European SDR to achieve SCA certification. SVFuA
is also the first European SCA based SDR system to successfully port
third-party waveforms. It is also the first radio system worldwide to
port waveforms while protecting the intellectual property rights of
both the platform and the waveform suppliers. As the lead industry
partner in the SVFuA project, Rohde & Schwarz facilitates this
approach with its waveform development environment. The German
Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) stated that the system
is certifiable up to the national classification level SECRET
(GEHEIM). This is an essential precondition for certification up to
the NATO classification level NATO SECRET. As a three-channel radio
system, SVFuA supports multiple independent levels of security
(MILS). Overall, SVFuA supports the WInnForum objective of enabling
coalition interoperability.

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Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
Mühldorfstr. 15
81671 München
Tel. 089/4129-0
www.rohde-schwarz.com
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