TÜBİTAK began developing several programs for Turkey's National Frequency Management System (MFYS) in 2001, and these studies have borne fruit in the international arena, when the Advanced Technology Institute (İLTAREN), the department of TÜBİTAK that handles frequency management projects, won a 2011 NATO tender to reconfigure NATO's military frequency spectrum software. İLTAREN was previously awarded NATO tenders in 2009-2010 to develop a new software program which was essential to the infrastructure for NATO frequency management.
The MFYS project helped the Turkish General Staff improve its data management infrastructure and technical message analysis, developing its frequency management at the strategic level. Thanks to TÜBİTAK's work, the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) became the first to be able to send messages using NATO's frequency spectrum that comply with the standards laid out by the SDG, a NATO project to standardize the communication database that coordinates data transfer among the military forces of member countries. Turkey works together with the US, the UK and the Netherlands as the Standardization Drafting Group (SDG) to reconfigure the NATO's military radio frequency spectrum, called SMADEF-XML, and to standardize frequency management.
Alper Kutay, the head of İLTAREN, told Anatolia on Tuesday that it is no coincidence that his department has won three consecutive NATO tenders in the field of frequency spectrum resources, because Turkey has made significant progress in information technology.
