This workshop is unrestricted. Distribution A materials only — classified programme
Fifth annual IEEE MILCOM 2026 National Capital Region, USA
5G/6G Military Communications Workshop
Securing the future of intelligent information dominance through 5G/6G, AI, quantum, resilient PNT, and cyber resilience.
- Date
- Monday 12 October 2026
- Open session
- 08:00 – 17:00 Sponsored social event 17:00 – 19:00
- Room
- Brookside C & A Brookside Foyer for demos
- Venue
- Bethesda North Marriott 5701 Marinelli Rd, Rockville, MD 20852
Call for demos
All demo proposals should be submitted via the IEEE form.
Call for papers
Submissions have closed. Papers currently under review are listed below.
Social event sponsorship
Sponsorship for the 17:00–19:00 social event is submitted via the IEEE form.
- Paper submission deadline
- 16 August 2026
- Extended to 23 August
- Acceptance notification
- 13 September 2026
- Camera-ready papers
- 20 September 2026
Agenda — open session
All technical presentations, paper presentations and demo presentations are allocated a 20-minute slot: approximately 15 minutes for the presentation and approximately 5 minutes for questions and answers.
Securing the Future of Intelligent Information Dominance: 5G/6G, AI, Quantum, and Resilient Networks
Katie Arrington · IonQ
Cybersecurity at the Intelligent Edge: Securing 5G/6G, AI, and Resilient Networks
Moderated by Michele Iversen
- Matthew Traylor · TwoSix
- Katie Arrington · IonQ
5G/6G in NATO: Evolution, Interoperability, and the Multinational Mission
Alexander Hamilton · Qualcomm
ISAC Evolution Roadmap
Anton Monk · Cohere Technologies
Coffee & networking break
ISAC Network as a Sensor
Elisiario Cunha · Ericsson Federal
Mission-Ready AI-RAN: Converged Edge AI, Sensing, and Resilient Communications
F. Nushi Carrera · Booz Allen Hamilton
From Sensing to Effects: The Role of 5G/6G in Military Operations
Gus Anderson · Lockheed Martin
HAPS 5G NTN for Military Use Cases
Laurent Perraud · Abside Networks
Picosecond Time Distribution over FSO to Support Sensing 5G Use Cases for Degraded Environments
Ian Gough · Timebeat
Leveraging Open-Source 5G for Secure and Flexible Military CommunicationsRemote
Paul Sutton · SRS
Title to be confirmed
Rob Spalding · SEMPRE
AI-RAN and the Future of Military 5G/6G: Intelligence, Resilience, and Edge Computing
Andy Thiessen · MITRE
From Models to the Field — Assessing 5G Resilience in Contested Environments
Moderated by Robert Stephens · Keysight
- Ian Gough · Timebeat
- J. Gordon Beattie · VIAVI Solutions
- Andy Thiessen · MITRE
- Anton Monk · Cohere Technologies
- Gus Anderson · Lockheed Martin
Resilient UAV Swarm Communications in Contested and GPS-Denied Environments: Anti-Jam Connectivity via 5G N3IWF
Cherif Chibane · Aurestech
Title to be confirmed
J. Gordon Beattie · VIAVI Solutions
Communicate Without Being Seen: Jamming-Resistant, AI-Driven LPI/LPD mmWave Connectivity for Multi-Domain Scenarios
Marcin Góralczyk, PhD and Dawid Kuchta, PhD · Microamp
AI-RAN for Military Applications
Steve Vogelsang · Nokia Federal
RF Cybersecurity for 5G, 6G and Golden Dome Using Secure PHY
Robert Stephens · Keysight
Coffee & networking break
Advanced Manufacturing to the Tactical Edge: Private 5G, URLLC and Resilient Connectivity
Roman Sandoval · AlloSense
From Open RAN to Open APIs — CAMARA, OCUDU and the Programmable Tactical Network
Nick Venezia · Centillion.AI
TN–NTN Coordination with Spacetime for Coverage Continuity and Resilience
Khalid Al-Mufti · Aalyria
Papers–Posters–Demos session
Workshop Organizing Committee · see papers under review below
Accepted paper and poster presentations
- Accepted paper — to be confirmed
- Poster — to be confirmed
- Poster — to be confirmed
- Poster — to be confirmed
- Poster — to be confirmed
Sponsored social event
Sponsored by the IEEE AI, 5G and Cyber Local Group and the MILCOM San Antonio 2027 Organizing Committee
Demo tables
01
Cohere Technologies
Dr Anton Monk
FutureG ISAC project built a multi-waveform OCUDU RAN
02
Keysight
Robert Stephens
Demo title to be confirmed
03
Microamp
Marcin Góralczyk · Dawid Kuchta
5G mmWave platform for ISAC and physical AI
04
VIAVI Solutions
J. Gordon Beattie
Demo title to be confirmed
05
MetaNova
Staff to be confirmed
Demo title to be confirmed
06
NI / Emerson
Neel Pandeya
Demo title to be confirmed
07
MITRE
Andy Thiessen
AI-WIN demo
08
SEMPRE
Rajesh Rasalkar
Demo title to be confirmed
09
Qualcomm
Staff to be confirmed
Sidelink
10
Timebeat
Ian Gough
Demo title to be confirmed
Papers under review
Under review
A Ruggedized Low-Cost Circularly Polarized Millimeter-Wave Phased Array System for Frequency Hopping
Under review
AtlasRAN: Timing-Aware Evaluation of Open-source 5G Platforms for Integrated Wireless Testbeds
Under review
Ray-Tracing vs. 3GPP TDL: Power Delay Profile Analysis in Outdoor-to-Indoor and Indoor Channels
Under review
MARC-5GC: Mission-Aware Resilient 5G Core for Tactical Networks
Under review
Joint 5G UAS and Sidelink Network Control Scheme: Enhancing Performance in Constrained Environments
Under review
PI-DDPG: A Fast Physics-Informed xApp for Disaster-Resilient UAV-Mounted 5G Base Station Positioning
Under review
Shared-State KPI Poisoning in the O-RAN Near-RT RIC: A Multi-xApp Threat to ML-Driven RAN Control
Under review
Jamming Detection in 5G/6G Networks: From O-RAN Concept to OCUDU Deployment
Under review
Security Vulnerability Analysis and Mitigation Framework for the 5G NRF
Under review
Global Intelligent Emergency Preparedness Response
Under review
Beyond RSRP Coverage: UAV Serviceability in Interference-Limited Urban 5G NR Networks
Under review
A Resource-Constrained 5G Standalone (SA) Network-in-a-Box for Tactical Communications
Under review
Security Risk Analysis of Covert Communications in Rain-Present mmWave Channel
Paper submissions: EDAS N35543
Overview
The 5G Military Communications workshop will include a combination of keynote sessions, 5G demonstrations, and paper and poster presentations. This year’s workshop will focus on operating in contested environments, open modular architectures, and cybersecurity. Industry experts will accept and review papers on 5G Core, 5G RAN, and 5G Cybersecurity.
The flexibility, growth, and performance benefits of software-defined architectures such as 5G are best accessed on an open modular hardware base to allow for rapid reconfiguration. Military solutions may need varying degrees of local communication stack instantiation and flexible topology architectures. The Department of Defense is actively investing in testbeds and other 5G-related technologies; this workshop will serve as a technology transfer mechanism from these efforts as it relates to lessons learned and future research activities.
Topics of interest
The workshop aims at providing a forum for industry and academics to disseminate new findings on 5G trials in vertical industries, and new business development. The workshop will call for papers presenting test results from trials as well as theoretical results based on realistic deployment schemes and new 5G business models. The target topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:
5G testbeds & systems
- 3GPP use cases
- Applications to military use cases
- Open testbed frameworks
- Satellite connectivity
- Non-terrestrial networks (NTN) — 3GPP based
- Ultrawideband
- Millimeter wave (mmWave)
- Digital twin
- Spectrum sharing
- Smart city
- Smart base
- Smart warehouse
- Smart manufacturing
- Network management
- Resilient power
- Integrated access backhaul (IAB)
Open modular architectures
- Commercial core networks
- Open core networks
- O-RAN, Cloud RAN
- Software defined networks
- Software defined radios
- Third-party application integration functions (AF, NEF, NWDAF)
- Blockchain architectures
- Federated architectures
- Digital twin applications
- Runtime analytics
- Commercial MANO
- Open MANO
- MEC and edge computing
Cybersecurity
- Zero trust in the context of 5G
- Secure infrastructure as code
- DevSecOps
- Tactical network security
- Network slicing security
- AI/ML cybersecurity
- 3GPP security
- RAN intelligent controllers (RIC apps)
- O-RAN architectures
- End-to-end resiliency
- MANO security
- Network and mobile device management
- 6G cybersecurity
5G/6G Roundtable
Testing for the Battlespace
With thanks to our sponsors.
VIAVI Solutions
Allbesmart
NI / Emerson
Keysight
Nokia Federal Solutions
MathWorks
Microamp Solutions
SEMPRE
StratusX
JMA Wireless
Abside Networks
SRS
Assured Space
Exencial Wealth Advisors
Registration is open
Registration for IEEE MILCOM 2026 is now open. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IEEE MILCOM 2026 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore.
Register now- Conference
- IEEE MILCOM 2026 · National Capital Region, USA
- Hotel
- Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center
- Address
- 5701 Marinelli Rd, Rockville, MD 20852, USA
- Submissions
- EDAS N35543 · Demo form · Sponsorship form
This workshop is unrestricted and accepts Distribution A materials only. For restricted material, please refer to the IEEE MILCOM classified programme, and see the MILCOM submission guidelines.