NATO S&T Collaboration Support Office

NATO Science & Technology Organization (STO) Collaboration Support Office (CSO)

 Scientific and Technical Committee (STC) Applied Vehicle Technology (AVT)

 Preliminary Meeting Announcement and

Call for Papers

For AVT- 417 Research Specialists’ Meeting

on

 "Platform Implications for Hybrid Space Architectures for NATO Missions"

to be held in Riga, Latvia

Date tbd Oct 2025

(In conjunction with the 56^th AVT Panel Business Meeting, Oct 2025)

Contributions and participation are open to citizens from NATO Nations, STO EOP Nations (Australia and Japan), and New Zealand

Background

Space is considered a highly dynamic and rapidly evolving area essential to NATO’s deterrence posture and defence capabilities. In 2019, NATO’s Space Policy recognized space as a new operational domain, similar to the air, land, sea and cyber domains. This Space Policy provides guidelines for space systems to ensure that space assets are able to provide timely communications, navigation and intelligence for NATO missions. Through the use of advanced satellite systems, NATO is able to respond with greater speed, effectiveness, efficiency and precision, in addition to cost-effectiveness.

NATO Member and commercial space capabilities are vital and central to NATO operations and their economic security. They are increasingly threatened militarily by potential adversaries. To meet these challenges and retain NATO primacy in space, NATO bodies should partner with the space industry to rapidly transition to a Hybrid Space Architecture (HSA).

The main objectives of the Research Specialists' Meeting are:

To promote the exchange of state-of-the-art knowledge on Platform Implications for Hybrid Space Architectures for NATO Missions, which is vital for NATO defence. NATO is critically dependent on space capabilities and services to conduct military missions and related responsibilities of the Alliance in a responsive and efficient manner. These missions include homeland and global security, out-of-area peace-keeping missions with rapid reaction forces, and asymmetric warfare.

Topics to be covered:

Interested speakers are invited to submit papers on the following topics:

• Multi-path, adaptive, secure communications, open mission systems, common standards
• Edge processing, autonomous command and control/tip and cue, artificial intelligence, distributed ledgers, and reliance of on-board computational architecture.
• Dynamic tasking algorithms allows adaptive mission planning using diverse asset capabilities
• Technologies that enable secure operations, prevent cyber-attacks, and ensure data integrity
• Rapid access to space, rocket payload integration strategies for hybrid space architecture
• Low-cost commercial bulk launch, responsive and resilient small launch
• Platform precision position and vector sharing requirements for hybrid missions.
• Platform – Sensor compatibility, Distributed operations, Fractioned sensors and data fusion solutions, reinforcement Learning in Orbital Servicing
• Commercial/Military constellation for on-board computational architecture
• Mission level autonomy for constellation and survivability of mission operations
• Intersatellite links for multi-orbit constellation
• Cloud-based systems to realize platform-centric to information-centric paradigm to improve resilience in space system
• Platform implications for HSA for hypersonic missile defence

 All details about deadlines and abstract submission are provided in the document "AVT-417_RSM_CfP" on the right side below the map.

 Note: Final date for submission of abstracts is 14^th February 2025