Rutgers ECE graduate student Fiona Tisdall (center) pictured

The IEEE Military Communications Conference was held October 6th through October 10 in Los Angeles.   IEEE MILCOM 2025 featured a comprehensive high-quality technical program including technical tracks, workshops, demos, and a variety of technical panels and tutorials, for both unclassified technical program and restricted access technical program. 

VIAVI Solutions was a participant and sponsor of IEEE MILCOM 2025. The company sponsored the Best Demo Award, which was awarded to a Rutgers-ARL team for their demo on IRS-enabled mmWave signal obfuscation for LEO nanosatellites. 

The Rutgers-ARL's project was titled "IRS-Enabled mmWave Signal Obfuscation for LEO Nanosatellites".

The team members were:

Fiona G Tisdall (Rutgers University, USA), Sean B Johnson (Rutgers University, USA), Morriel Kasher (Rutgers University, USA), Fikadu Dagefu (Army Research Laboratory, USA), Jihun Choi (Army Research Lab & Booz Allen Hamilton, USA), Justin Kong (US  Research Laboratory, USA), Brian Kim (DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, USA), Predrag Spasojević (Rutgers University, USA)