Preface

Abstract

Recent world wide events have clearly demonstrated that the military response required to the changing threat has to be dynamic, and this means the any military communications capability has to be able to evolve and keep pace with these changing needs. Also, over the past years there has been a merging of the technologies that are now required by both the military to keep ahead of the threat and the commercial world where consumer demands for greater mobility and access require new and evolving technologies. The need for advanced technologies for military communications was a important feature of the 4th NATO Regional Conference on Military Communication and Information Systems that was held at the Military Communication Institute in Zegrze, Poland, between the 9th and 11th October 2002. This conference was arranged by the Military Communication Institute, the NATO C3 Agency and the Military University of Technology (Warsaw), and is formally endorsed by the First Deputy Minister of National Defence of the Republic of Poland and the NATO Assistant Secretary General for Defence Support, and this journal includes 11 papers from the conference that are seen to have a wide application and convey novel and informative approaches to the advances in new communications technologies. (...)