PROJECTS

NATO Air Command Control and Information Services (AirC2IS) NATO Afghanistan Mission Network Integration Core (AMN INT-CORE) Transportable Autonomous Patrol for Land Border Surveillance System (TALOS) Tank Command Control and Information System (TKKBS, ALTAY) Tactical Environment Support System (TODES) Integrated Cyber Security System (BSGS) European Cyber Security Protection Alliance (CYSPA) Accurate Positioning System (HKBS)

Being the largest defence information technologies project that is being developed in Turkey, NATO Air Command Control and Information Services (AirC2IS) has started in 2011. Atos is the main contractor. As a subcontractor of Atos, STM has successfully performed analysis and design for the first 4 baselines, System Development of Baseline #1 and Baseline #2.   

The aim of AirC2IS Project is to provide software tools that will help for planning, tasking, execution and monitoring activities of NATO's Air Operations and Active Ballistic Missile Defence plans at the strategic level and help for changing and using strategic, operational and tactical levels of data at different levels in an easy way. The project includes, as well as Air Command and Control Centre services, Active Ballistic Missile Defence System functions."

After the NATO AirC2IS Project has been awarded, NATO AMN INT-CORE (Afghanistan Mission Network Integration Core) Project has been started by the NATO Communications and Information (NCI) Agency Officials as single-source procurement in September 2011. ATOS Turkey is the main contractor of the project and STM has undertaken the responsibility of system development.

The main purpose of the project is to develop a simple, flexible, stable and adaptive integration core in order to establish interoperability between functional field systems of NATO and coalition forces in Afghanistan, providing an infrastructure information systems integration. Providing support for ISAF procedures regarding Air command control information, common operational picture and distribution of combat data can be mentioned as another main goal of the project.

The system has passed all the acceptance tests and has been installed in the ISAF Joint Command (IJC) Kabul in July 2013.

TALOS is an international research project in the security thematic field funded partially by the EU 7. Framework Program and partner organizations’ own resources.

Main goal is to develop and field-test an innovative concept of mobile and autonomous elements to protect the European land borders. It has been carried out and completed between 2008 and 2012. 13 million Euro of a total of 20 million Euro project budget has been funded by the EU. The partners of the project are as follows:

Przemyslowy Instytut Automatuki i Pomiarow (PIAP), Coordinator, Poland
ASELSAN Elektronik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. (ASELSAN), Turkey
European Business Innovation and Research Center S.A. (EBIC), Romania
Hellenic Aerospace Industry S.A. (HAI), Greece
Israeli Aerospace Industries (IAI), İsrael
ITT Sp. z. o.o. (ITTI), Poland
Office National d’Etudes et de Recherces Aerospatiales (ONERA), France
Smartdust Solutions Ltd. (SDS), Estonia
Societe Nationale de Construction Aerospatiale (SONACA), Belgium
STM Savunma Teknolojileri Mühendislik ve Ticaret A.Ş. (STM), Turkey
Telekomunikacja Polska SA (TP), Poland
TTI Norte S.L. (TTI), Spain
Technical Research Center of Finland (VTT), Finland

TKKBS, provides the uninterrupted, fast and secure data communication between various elements ranging from a single tank to a battalion mission force in order to effectively fulfill the command control requirements of the Land Armed Forces Command’s operational concept.

TKKBS provides the following capabilities:

• Mission planning and execution
• Mission functions control and monitoring of every unit
• Display of the common tactical picture on digital maps
• Brief and de-brief
• Digital communication with other battlefield functional systems
• Tools to aid decision making and analysis processes
• Data exchange inside and between the vehicles
• Integration with platform subsystems (Fire control, navigation, friend and foe, odometer, etc.)

TKKBS Project

TKKBS Project has been funded by TÜBİTAK and carried out as a research and development project under the supervision of SSM. Leopard 1T Tanks and Advanced Armed Personnel Carriers (GZPT) has been developed to fulfill the Land Forces’ demands.

ALTAY Tank Command Control Communications Information System (TKKMBS) Project

TKKMBS is an integrated command and control system that meets the internal and external communications and command and control demands of the Turkish Main Combat Tank that is being developed in ALTAY Project, making use of a digital network between various elements of the Tank Battalion Mission Force.
OTOKAR is the main contractor; ASELSAN carries out the role of electronics integrator and STM – as a subcontractor to ASELSAN – develops the software and performs the test and integration. Additionally STM works in collaboration with ASELSAN on all of the system engineering stages. The subcontract has been signed in 11.09.2009.

TODES Project is a prototyping, proof of concept and feasibility project that has been carried out by AnelARGE and ODTÜ TSK-MODSİMMER under the supervision of STM. The final prototype has been installed in ODTÜ TSK-MODSİMMER labs and is open for SSM and Turkish Armed Forces consideration.

The project aims to enhance the end to end situational awareness of the combat units within the Network Enabled Capability (NEC) concept. It is started in 03.04.2012 and ended in 15.11.2012 with a demo to the SSM project team.

BSGS is a feasibility project that has started in 2012 in order to meet basic requirements of cyber security and to realize the Cyber Security Vision. A prototype product of National Command Control Communication Computer and Intelligence (C4I) System for a unified cyber defence has been introduced.

In the scope of the project,

• An ontology that covers the cyber defence elements and creation of the national vulnerability database
• Forming of a Cyber Security Risk Analysis and Evaluation System usable by all organizational units
• Forming of a technical infrastructure for the Cyber Security Coordination Center that gathers real time data and combines them to make vulnerability and risk assessments
• Creation of a Common Cyber Security system from gathered data

has been realized.

CYSPA aims to form an alliance of various partners in Europe such as research societies, infrastructure operators, industrial and governmental authorities in order to increase their joint capability to defend themselves in cyber platforms.

The consortium lead by The European Organization for Security (EOS) consists of 17 organizations from 10 countries, including STM from Turkey. Project is planned to finalize in March 2015.

HKBS is started by STM as an in house R&D project and later funded by TÜBİTAK.

The project aims to use the Inertial Navigation System (INS), barometric altimeter, radar altimeter and terrain elevation model to predict position and altitude in the absence of the GPS system, usable by avionic systems such as the digital map, obstacle warning, and auto-piloting systems.