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The high-speed waveform developed under the leadership of the European arms agency OCCAR in the PESCO project European Secure Software Defined Radio (ESSOR) has been accepted by the clients and may be used.

Im ESSOR OC1 (Operational capability 1)-Vertrag hatte die OCCAR 2017 die „Alliance for ESSOR“ (a4ESSOR) mit der Entwicklung einer Basiswellenform für eine hohe Datenrate (High Data Rate, HDR) beauftragt. Zum Joint Venture a4ESSOR gehören Unternehmen aus fünf EU-Nationen: Bittium (Finnland), Indra (Spanien), Leonardo (Italien), Radmor (Polen), Rohde & Schwarz (Deutschland) und Thales (Frankreich). Der Vertrag läuft über 63 Monate und ist mit 100 Millionen Euro dotiert.

The prerequisite for the formal acceptance of the HDR waveform (HDR WF) was the successful tests at Leonardo at the end of 2020. After the final quality tests, it was determined that the two and a half year development was successful. The a4ESSOR partners will port the ESSOR HDR base waveform to their respective software-defined radios in the next phase of the project.

This is followed by interoperability tests between the partners' radio devices. If the result is positive, the ESSOR target waveforms are released for use. This concludes the ESSOR OC1 project.

Gerhard Heiming

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