[SatNews] The CANEUS Shared SmallSat Collective Safety, Security and Prosperity (CSSP) Conference will take place on October 20 to 22, 2010, at the NATO Undersea Research Centre (NURC), Marina di Carrara, Italy — the Conference is jointly organised by CANEUS and NURC.

The keynote address will be delivered by Dr. Othman, United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs. Other key speakers will include:

• Dr. David Neyland, Director, DARPA TTO
• Admiral Harry Ulrich, U.S. Naval Forces
• Ing. Franco Malerba, Office of Science and Technology Officer, OECD Paris
• Mr. Paul Weissenberg, Director, Aerospace, Defence and Security, DG Enterprise and Industry, European Commission
• Mr. Joe Ross, Technical Director, Capability Team 5 (JISR), NATO NC3A
• Dr. Robert Frosch, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University
• Mr. Sim Cher Young, Chief Operating Officer, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
• Mr. Richard Buenneke, Deputy Director, Space Policy , U.S. Department of State

The Conference will examine the potential for international collaboration in Shared SmallSats for Collective Safety, Security and Prosperity (CSSP). The vision for Shared SmallSat CSSP is that of an international effort, in line with national security strategies that call for Cooperative Security to promote safety, security, protection of the environment and global economic development. National commitment to engagement is manifest in programmes and projects across all aspects of international relations; Shared SmallSat CSSP would contribute a “space segment” accessible to all countries through “fractional ownership” in the satellite constellation.

The event will make significant advances in identifying issues for the Shared SmallSat CSSP Concept of Operation and international cooperation framework as well as the particulars of international complementary technology developments and benefit applications so that a comprehensive profile of Shared SmallSat CSSP international impact can be quantified. Shared SmallSat CSSP would make collaboration in space accessible to all nations, and would promote its use to foster governance in the difficult, “unwired” regions of the world.