JOINT FORCE EMPLOYMENT

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Implementing NATO Network Enabled Capability
(NNEC) Implications for NATO Response
Forces Envisioned Roles Reynold F.
Palaganas
Colonel, US Army
Commander, NCSA
Sector Mons
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Agenda

• Thesis
• Discussion
• Findings
• Conclusions
• Recommendations

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View of NATO Transformation
NATO will no longer have the large, massed
units that were necessary for the Cold War, but
will have agile and capable forces at Graduated
Readiness levels to prepare the Alliance to
meet any threat. - General (ret) James L.
Jones, former SACEUR

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Thesis
To transform NATO Response Force (NRF)
operations from a platform-centric to a
network-centric environment, NATO Consultation,
Command and Control (C3) elements, NATOs two
strategic commands, member nations, and industry
must move beyond Collaborative Information
Environment (CIE) rhetoric and a business as
usual Cold War mindset as enterprise network
stakeholders by implementing a federated NATO
Network Enabled Capability (NNEC) concept as the
interoperability driver that joins common
interfaces and information services.
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The Challenge A Pictorial View
Users
Users / Outcomes
Maritime
Land
Air
Logistics

Air
Targeting
Other
Network Comm Services provided within
functional areas
Layers and Building Blocks of services provided
across functional areas to multiple users
From this - Stovepiped Interoperability
To this - Gridded Interoperability
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NRF Concept and Principles

• NRF Concept Two Envisioned Roles
• Modular, quick reaction force
• NATOs transformation catalyst entry point for
  capability improvements
• NRF Principles (Relative to Capabilities)
• Deployability
• Scalability
• Rotation

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NRF at Full Operational Capability (FOC)
Deployable Joint Task Force HQ
Land
Air
Maritime
NATO Task Force
Brigade Combat Team
200 Combat Sorties/Day

• With Strategic Enablers
• Sea/AirLift
• Intelligence
• Force Protection
• Combat Support
• Combat Service Support

Total Force approx up to 25,000
Plus Special Forces
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NATO Commanders Bi-Strategic Vision Concepts
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NNEC Its About People Information Networks
NATOs blueprint transformation from a stovepiped
to a Networking Information and Infrastructure
(NII) enterprise
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Relevant NATO Bodies for NNEC
NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL (NAC)
NC3 Organisation
Military Committee (MC)
NATO C3 Board (NC3B)
SACEUR
SACT
NC3 Reps
OPCON
OPCOM
NATO CIS SERVICES AGENCY (NCSA)
NATO C3 Agency (NC3A)
STRATEGIC COORD (for CDE)
JFC
OPCON
NRF-
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Findings NNEC Impediments (1 of 3)

• Dealing with a Legacy Platform-Centric
• Environment
• Lack of Coherent Network-centric Guiding
• Principles or Keystone Authoritative Reference
• Outdated Standardization Agreements
• (STANAGs)

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Findings NNEC Impediments (2 of 3)

• Technological Insertion Concerns two themes
• Obtaining Nations Consensus to Open
• Standards Architecture
• Bridging the Technology/Capability Gap
• Nations Pursuing Different Levels of Ambition
• Info Technology Transfer (Transatlantic
• Gap Also, Info Sharing within Europe)

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Findings NNEC Impediments (2 of 3) - Cont
(Cont from previous slide)
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Findings NNEC Impediments (3 of 3)

• National Funding and NATO Common Funding
• Support Concerns
• National Funding for Provision and
• Prioritized Investment of National Military
  Assets
• NATO Common Funding Cost-Shares for
• NATO Capability Projects or NATO Owned
• Assets

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Conclusions (1 of 2)

• NATO and nations will rely upon NRF as a focal
  point to operationalize CIE network enabled
  common services however, implementing NNEC
  presents interoperability challenges in migrating
  stakeholders away from a platform-centric legacy
  environment to a network-centric force a
  paradigm shift

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Conclusions Role Implications (2 of 2)

• NRF in quick reaction force role
• - Cant leverage NRF capabilities without NC3
  bodies breaking away from stovepiped policies,
  architectures, and management approaches NNEC is
  intended to overcome with this plug-and-operate
  concept
• NRF in transformation catalyst role
• - Cant accelerate NNEC evolutionary programs
  or improve NATO/national systems without firm
  mutual stakeholders national commitments to
  reduce technology and capabilities gaps

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Recommendations (1 of 3)

• 1st Regarding NRFs quick reaction force role
• - NC3 organizational bodies must reassert
  overarching CIS interoperability roles and
  responsibilities and focus on quick wins

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Recommendations (2 of 3)

• 2d Regarding NRFs transformation catalyst role
  
• - NC3 organizational bodies should exploit
  distributed Alliance cross-cutting capabilities,
  integrating NNEC economies of scale where
  consensus is possible
• - Nations must have political will to invest
  upfront in network-centric initiatives while
  reducing investments to recapitalize national
  legacy systems

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Recommendations (3 of 3)

• 3d Regarding industry
• - NC3 organizational bodies and nations must
  stay connected with industry forums such as
  Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium
  implementing NNEC in the NRF is an intellectual
  teaming effort

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Comments/Questions
Published work can be found at this website
http//www.carlisle.army.mil/usacsl/index.asp Cl
ick on Information as Power
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Backup Charts
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Discussion Network Centric Warfare (NCW)
Background

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Discussion NNEC - Background

• Network-Centric Frames of Reference
• U.S. Net Centric Operations and Warfare (NCOW)
• U.K. Network-Enabled Capability (NEC)