HEIST will result in augmented threat detection, fault diagnosis and communication resilience for submarine communication cables (SCCs). Currently, the absence of submarine situational awareness data fusion delivers sparse fault localization, whereas HEIST will achieve meter- range precision. Impaired SCCs suffer days of downtime due to physical inspection and repair, whereas HEIST’s rerouting protocol enabled by the heterogeneous space and submarine communications architecture reduces downtime to hours. Developing new satcom advanced technology in high bandwidth free-space optical links and non-terrestrial networks will facilitate last-mile connectivity. A successful project will yield HEIST’s technology transition enabled by our regulatory and policy framework to NATO and commercial operators.

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HEIST Test Bed

NATO Diana Maritime Test Center 
Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH) and the Maritime Technology Center of Sweden

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OUR LEADERSHIP

HEIST NATO COUNTRY DIRECTOR

Dr. Gregory Falco
Cornell University, USA
gfalco@cornell.edu

HEIST NATO PARTNER COUNTRY DIRECTOR

Hans Liwang
Swedish Defence University, Sweden
Hans.Liwang@fhs.se

HEIST Co-Director

Bjarni Már Magnússon
Bifrost University, Iceland
deildarforsetiLD@bifrost.is

HEIST Co-Director

Myriam Dunn Cavelty
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
dunn@sipo.gess.ethz.ch

HEIST Co-Director

Alex Marder
Johns Hopkins University, USA
amarder@jhu.edu

HEIST Testbed Director

Henric Johnson
Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden ​henric.johnson@bth.se

INDUSTRY PARTNERS

Theodor Gislason

Syndis Chief Technology Officer

Joseph Calibeo

Orbital Missions and Services

Nick Saunders

Chief Cybersecurity and Data Officer, Government Systems

NATO SPONSOR

Eyup Turmus
NATO SPS Program Manager

GOVERNMENT PARTNERS

Ms Diljá Mist Einarsdóttir

Icelandic Parliament, Foreign Affairs Committee Chair

Rear Admiral Ewa Skoog Haslum

Swedish Armed Forces, Chief of the Royal Swedish Navy

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