11.00am - 11.15am

Presentation Details
Defence has an ever-increasing reliance on electromagnetic spectrum (spectrum) for the conduct of operations, but spectrum is a contested, congested, and finite resource. Historic, outdated management processes have led to present-day spectrum inefficiencies but modern demands for wireless technologies create a perfect storm for spectrum exploitation. . Technologies that deny and degrade spectrum usage are evolving at a rapid pace. When non-cooperative participants vie for control of the same spectrum resource, Defence’s ability to sense and coordinate action is compromised. Consunet presents Distributed aUtonomous Spectrum managemenT (DUST), a disruptive technology designed to solve many present-day Spectrum Management shortcomings. DUST continuously creates and evolves the customer’s spectrum plans and dynamically coordinates spectrum access across many users and devices at high fidelity. DUST has applications in terrestrial and satellite communications as well as leveraging real-time and predictive understanding of the spectrum.
DUST technologies are being transitioned into operational service across multiple Defence applications, with the aim to deliver orders of magnitude increase in spectrum manoeuvre capability, agility, resilience and efficiency cost savings. DUST was developed by Consunet as part of a 4-year R&D collaboration with several Australian universities and the Defence Science and Technology Group, supported by Next Generation Technologies Fund (NGTF) funding via the Trusted Autonomous Systems Defence Cooperative Research Centre.
Biography
Dr Don Gossink holds a Bachelor’s degree (with Honors) in Electronic Engineering and a PhD in Communications Technology. He has worked in Defence Science and Technology for over 28 years. Don commenced his defence career in satellite communications, moving to terrestrial Defence communications and networking, Digital Signal Processing, sensor networks, covert communications and communications architecting. Don was attached to the Air Force Research Laboratories (US) for 18 Months where he extended into Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence and then returned to Australia to lead and deliver Defence solutions and systems using autonomy, AI, and ML. In July 2019 Don joined Consunet as Chief Scientist and as an executive director.