NATO Network Enabled Capabilities

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NATO Network Enabled Capabilities
Major General Ruud van Dam Royal Netherlands Air
Force HQ SACT, ACOS C4I and Director IS NNEC
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NATO C4I Evolution
Collaborative, Network Centric, Interoperable
and Interdependent
Initial NNEC Concept
Integrated C4ISR
C2 Technology Improvements
Core C2 Information System
Alliance Goals and Ambitions
1999
2002
2006
2011
NNEC NATO Network Enabled Capability
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C4I - Support to Transformation
Transformation Areas
Products
C4I Areas
Functional Services, Bi-SC AIS, Architecture,
Capability Packages, Networks
Capability Delivery
Support to Operations (Ops)
Software / Applications
Standards, Interoperability Demos, Prototyping
Platforms
C4I Technologies and Interoperability
NNEC Framework, Concepts, CDE
C4I Concept Development
Intelligence Functional Svcs, NRF Intelligence
Architecture
Intelligence
Management
Life Cycle PMO
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C4I Areas

• Support to Operations
• Intelligence Functional Area Services and
  Intelligence Reach-Back
• C4I Technologies and Interoperability
• Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstrations
  (CWID)

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C4I Areas

• Capability Delivery
• Architecture Development
• Capability Packages
• Integration of New Functional Area Services (e.g.
  Air Command and Control System ACCS)
• C4I Concept Development Support to NNEC
• Overarching Architecture, Concepts, and Roadmap

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NATO Network Enabled Capability (NNEC)A Working
Definition

• NNEC is the Alliances cognitive and technical
  ability to federate the various components of the
  operational environment, from the strategic level
  (including NATO HQ) down to the tactical levels,
  through a networking and information
  infrastructure (NII).

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NNEC Fundamentals
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Non-linear Approach
NEC level of competence
Deployments or exercises
Coherence
AB
BC
ABC
Collaboration
Coordination
NATO Nation A Nation B Nation C
Deconfliction
Time

• Implementation Considerations
• National prerogative / level of ambition/
  calendar/ legacy systems
• Emphasis on NRF capabilities and specific events
  (exercises, deployment)
• Gap identification and improvement

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Security and User Identification

• Protection of information might be more costly
  for what you loose than for what you protect

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Process Organisationthe Human factor

• Working in a network environment means trust,
  even when engaged in strange processes

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Information Sharing and Collaboration

• Education
• Trust
• Sharing

We need to teach the benefits of information
sharing and collaborative work
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Approach to Cognitive Domain
Operational Results
Human Processes
Knowledge
Decision Making
Knowledge Building
Execution
Knowledge
Simulation Tools
Common Understanding
Collaboration
Anticipation
Collaborative Environment
Information sharing
Knowledge Management
Information
Situation Assessment
Information
Information Presentation
Information Enhancement
Information Fusion
Information Management
Situation Awareness
Information Processing
Data
Data Processing
Data
Supporting Services
Some sub concepts have to be developed
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MISSION
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• Hopefully not, as
• Nations are fully aware of the interest
• We are not starting from scratch
• Solutions andgood will do exist

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NNEC Feasibility Study

• 12 Nations NNEC Feasibility Study supported by
  NC3A (NATO Consultation, Command Control
  Agency)
• Primary focus on a Networking and Information
  Infrastructure (NII)
• Architectural concepts, technologies and
  standards
• Includes timelines, key transition points
• Final report and recommendations endorsed by NATO
  C3 Board
• To underpin future work

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Feasibility Study Layers
Operational Transformational Objective Areas
NII National NIIs NATO NIIThe Enabling
Network of Networks
NII Networking Information Infrastructure
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Think Positive!

• National network capabilities are being fielded
  and NATO must build on these
• NATO processes, although slow, are robust and
  effectively sustained
• The diversity of solutions that nations can offer
  is hugely beneficial

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The Ideal Network ?

• Keep in touch and know everything !

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NATO Network-Enabled Capabilities
Questions ?