Securing the Future of Intelligent Information Dominance Through 5G/6G, AI, Quantum, Resilient PNT, and Cyber Resilience
(Fifth Annual)
IEEE MILCOM 2026 CONFERENCE
LOCATION: National Capital Region, USA
HOTEL: Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center
ADDRESS: 5701 Marinelli Rd, Rockville, MD 20852 USA
WEBSITE: Hotel Website
CALL FOR DEMOS: (OPEN)
All demo proposals should be submitted via IEEE Google Form below:
https://forms.gle/a9MWpHDX4RnsgaFr8
CALL FOR PAPERS: (CLOSED)
THIS WORKSHOP IS UNRESTRICTED. Only DistroA materials are allowed. Please refer to IEEE MILCOM CLASSIFIED program for that material.
https://milcom2026.ieee-milcom.org/classified-program
Workshop Papers Important Dates:
Workshop Paper Submission Deadline: 16 August 2026 (New Extended to August 23)
| 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 |
Acceptance Notification: 13 September 2026
Camera-Ready Papers: 20 September 2026
All papers should be submitted via EDAS: https://edas.info/N35543
PAPERS UNDER REVIEW:
CALL FOR SOCIAL EVENT SPONSORSHIP (OPEN)
Please submit your sponsorship for social event via IEEE Form: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/502814
Open Session:
DATE: MONDAY 12 OCTOBER 2026
TIME: 08:00 TO 17:00
SPONSORED SOCIAL EVENT TIME: 17:00 TO 19:00
ROOM: Brookside C and A and Brookside Foyer for Demos)
Agenda for Open Session on Monday 12 October 2026:
Note that all Technical Presentations, Paper Presentations, and Demo Presentations are each allocated a 20-minute time-slot, where approximately 15 minutes are for the presentation, and approximately 5 minutes are for questions and answers.
| Time (Duration) | Topic | Presenter / Speaker |
| 08:00 (60 min) | Keynote: Securing the Future of Intelligent Information Dominance: 5G/6G, AI, Quantum, and Resilient Networks | Katie Arrington – IonQ |
| 09:00 (40 min) | Panel: Cybersecurity at the Intelligent Edge: Securing 5G/6G, AI, and Resilient Networks Moderator: Michele Iversen | Matthew Traylor – TwoSix Katie Arrington – IonQ |
| 09:40 (20 min) | Invited Talk: 5G/6G in NATO: Evolution, Interoperability, and the Multinational Mission | Alexander Hamilton (Qualcomm) |
| 10:00 (20 min) | Demo Presentation: ISAC Evolution Roadmap | Anton Monk (Cohere Technologies) |
| 10:20 (20 min) | Coffee & Networking Break | — |
| 10:40 (20 min) | Demo Presentation: ISAC Network as a Sensor | Elisiario Cunha (Ericsson Federal) |
| 11:00 (20 min) | Demo Presentation: Mission-Ready AI-RAN: Converged Edge AI, Sensing, and Resilient Communications | F. Nushi Carrera (Booz Allen Hamilton) |
| 11:20 (20 min) | Demo Presentation: From Sensing to Effects: The Role of 5G/6G in Military Operations | Gus Anderson – Lockheed Martin |
| 11:40 (20 min) | Demo Presentation: HAPS 5G NTN for Military Use Cases | Laurent Perraud (Abside Networks) |
| 12:00 (20 min) | Demo Presentation: Picosecond time distribution over FSO to support sensing 5G use cases for degraded environments | Ian Gough (Timebeat) |
| 12:20 (20 min) | Sponsored Lunch Break Presentation: Leveraging Open-Source 5G for Secure and Flexible Military Communications (REMOTE) | Paul Sutton (SRS) |
| 12:40 (20 min) | Demo Presentation: TBD | Rob Spalding (SEMPRE) |
| 13:00 (20 min) | Afternoon Keynote: AI-RAN and the Future of Military 5G/6G: Intelligence, Resilience, and Edge Computing | Andy Thiessen (MITRE) |
| 13:20 (20 min) | Afternoon Panel: From Models to the Field – Assessing 5G Resilience in Contested Environments Moderator: | Robert Stephens (Keysight) Ian Gough (Timebeat) J. Gordon Beattie (VIAVI Solutions) Andy Thiessen (MITRE) Anton Monk (Cohere Technologies) Gus Anderson (Lockheed Martin) |
| 13:40 (20 min) | Demo Presentation: Resilient UAV Swarm Communications in Contested and GPS-Denied Environments: Anti-Jam Connectivity via 5G N3IWF | Cherif Chibane (Aurestech) |
| 14:00 (20 min) | Demo Presentation: TBD | J. Gordon Beattie (VIAVI Solutions) |
| 14:20 (20 min) | Demo Presentation: Communicate Without Being Seen. Jamming-resistant, AI-driven LPI/LPD mmWave Connectivity for Multi-Domain Scenarios. | Marcin Góralczyk, PhD (Microamp) Dawid Kuchta, PhD (Microamp) |
| 14:40 (20 min) | Demo Presentation: AI-RAN for Military Applications | Steve Vogelsang (Nokia Federal) |
| 15:00 (20 min) | Demo Presentation: RF Cybersecurity for 5G, 6G and Golden Dome Using Secure PHY | Robert Stephens (Keysight) |
| 15:20 (10 min) | Coffee & Networking Break | — |
| 15:30 (20 min) | Demo Presentation: Advanced Manufacturing to the tactical edge: private 5G, URLLC and resilient connectivirty | Roman Sandoval (AlloSense) |
| 15:50 (20 min) | Invited Talk: From Open RAN to Open APIs – CAMARA, OCUDU and the Programmable Tactical Network | Nick Venezia – Centillion.AI |
| 16:10 (20 min) | Demo Presentation: TN-NTN coordination with Spacetime for coverage continuity/resilience | Khalid Al-Mufti (Aalyria) |
| 16:30 (30 min) | Papers-Posters-Demos Session SEE BELOW FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS | Workshop Organizing Committee |
| 16:30 (15 min) | Accepted Paper Presentation: TBD | TBD |
| Poster Presentation | TBD | TBD |
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| 17:00 – 19:00 (120 min) | Social Event Sponsored by IEEE AI, 5G and Cyber Local Group MILCOM San Antonio 2027 Org Committee 5G/6G ROUNDTABLE: Testing for the Battlespace | Thank you 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 |
DEMO TABLES:
DATE: MONDAY 12 OCTOBER 2026
TIME: 08:00 TO 17:00
| Demo Table | Demo Organization | Demo Staff | Demo Title |
| 1 | Cohere Technologies | Dr Anton Monk | FutureG ISAC project built a Multi-Waveform OCUDU RAN |
| 2 | Keysight | Robert Stephens | TBD |
| 3 | Microamp | Marcin Góralczyk Dawid Kuchta | 5G mmWave Platform for ISAC and Physical AI |
| 4 | VIAVI Solutions | J. Gordon Beattie | TBD |
| 5 | MetaNova | TBD | |
| 6 | NI/Emerson | Neel Pandeya | TBD |
| 7 | MITRE | Andy Thiessen | AI-WIN Demo |
| 8 | SEMPRE | Rajesh Rasalkar | TBD |
| 9 | Qualcomm | TBD | Sidelink |
| 10 |
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 AND 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)
5G 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
MILCOM CONFERENCE REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN !!
PLEASE REFER TO MILCOM SUBMISSION GUIDELINES BELOW:
https://milcom2026.ieee-milcom.org/pages/submission-guidelines
Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IEEE MILCOM 2026 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore.