Communications and Information Partnerships and Multinational Projects

Joint solutions: Maximizing the value of NATO and national investments Version October 2015

Contact InformationMs Agata SzydelkoDemand Management DirectorateTel: +32 2 707 8241Email: agata.szydelko@ncia.nato.int

The need for multinational cooperation is raising in times when nations and organizations increasingly communicate, train and operate together. As security challenges become more complex and technology grows more expensive due to interoperability require-ments, there are key capabilities that many Allies are able to obtain and share with partners through mul-tilateral collaboration. The NATO endorsed Smart De-fence Initiative and Partner Interoperability Advocacy

Group (PIAG) are at heart of this approach.

Stage 1Feasibility

• Establish Initial Business Case

Stage 2Preparation

• Agree Business Case

Stage 3Execution

• Execute Multi-Year Programme of Work

Operational Analysis

and Support Services

Cyber Security

Educationand

Training

Civil – Military Interoperability

Independent Verification

and Validation

C3 Services AirC2 & JISR Services

Core Enterprise Services

Network Services and IT infrastructure

Military Interoperability

MN ADAPT

Civil

NST C&IP

MN MISP MN CD E&TMN CD2 MN NEXT TACOMS+

MAJIICAir Surveillance

CSI BRAAD

ACCS Ext/ASBE

SSSB AirC2 C&IP

C3S C&IP

N1S for NFS *

The main aim of multinational cooperation is to reduce the overall fi nancial burden on the Nations by maximizing the re-use and shar-ing of capabilities that NATO and Nations have already developed and delivered for operational use. Through this approach the NATO, Allies and Partners capabilities are inherently NATO Interoperable, Secure, Aff ordable and the process is Fast and Easy (NISAFE).

To support this eff ort, the NCI Agency, through its Demand Manage-ment Directorate establishes non-commonly funded collaboration frameworks with NATO Nations, non-NATO nations and entities, national and international organizations as well as industries. This includes:

• Communications and Information (C&I) Partnerships;• Multinational Projects;• Tailored agreements with participating nations and

organizations.

With a mind-set towards solving customer problems, the multina-tional partnerships build on continued engagement through an established cooperation development process with three stages: Feasibility, Preparation and Execution.

The C&I Partnerships and Multinational Projects support the C4ISR Capability Areas. In the below fi gure, the projects marked in orange are in Execution stage, the projects in Preparation stage are marked in blue and projects in Feasibility stage are marked in green. The C&I Partnerships are highlighted in grey.

The C&I Partnerships and Multinational Projects support NATO Capabilities development and service provision.

Service provision based Service provision based on NATO developed on NATO developed

capabilities capabilities for Nations

NATO capabilities NATO capabilities development and development and

service provision for service provision for NATO

Multinational capabilitiesMultinational capabilitiesdevelopment development

and service provision and service provision for Nations

C&I Partnerships

NCIONATO NATIONS

NATO Solutions Multinational Solutions

National Funding National FundingNATO Common Funding

Trust FundsBrokerage Agreements

Bilateral Projects

Multinational Projects

Established Projects

Multi-Intelligence All-Source Joint Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Interoperability Coalition (MAJIIC2) - Pro-vides commanders with improved situational awareness through networked collaborative exchange of JISR sensors information.

Multinational Cyber Defence Capability Development (MN CD2) - Promotes interoperability and coherent approach to Cyber Defence by facilitating the development of national cyber defence capabilities.

Multinational Alliance Defence Analysis and Planning for Transformation (MN ADAPT) - Enables NATO and partner na-tions cooperation and best practice sharing in application of NATO Defence Planning Processes (NDPP) and tools in a national context.

Air Surveillance for Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland - 3-D Fixed Position Air Defence Radars (FADR) Acquisition and inte-gration for Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland.

Air Command and Control System (ACCS) Extension Software Based Element (ASBE) - Enables participating Nations to become an integral part of the NATO Integrated Air and Missile Defence (NATINAMD) in the ACCS era and contribute to the Alliance inte-grated Air C2 capability across the NATO Area of Responsibility.

Ship-Shore-Ship Bu� er (SSSB) - Provides a real-time data link buff er system that supports data exchange between naval forc-es, including airborne assets and their associated air defence ground environment units.

CRC¹ System Interface (CSI) - Supports real-time data exchange between various Command and Control as NATO’s most compre-hensive and complete data-link buff er. In addition CSI provides a full control capability for ground based air defence (GBAD) and interceptors by making use of the tactical data links implemented.

BRAAD Pre-Acquisition StudyBalkan Regional Approach to Air Defence - Provides a multina-tional platform to effi ciently address the NATO requirements for Air Surveillance in the Balkans.1

Tactical Communications (TACOMS+) – Aims to deliverand maintain an advanced suite of interoperability standards that delivers cost eff ective and rapid interoperability between national communications networks across all military operations.

Prospective Projects

NATO Software Tools C&I Partnership (NST C&IP) - Enables in-teroperability through supporting the nations in the use of NATO tools for national purposes to complement and leverage on NATO common funded software capabilities.Expected start execution stage: 4Q15.

Air Command and Control C&I Partnership (AirC2 C&IP) - Aims to facilitate the provision of in-service support services for AirC2 Systems to NATO Nations in those areas not eligible for common funding.Expected start execution stage: 1Q16.

C3 Standards C&I Partnership (C3S C&IP) - Aims to achieve eff ective and effi cient development and maintenance of stand-ards that enable interoperability of equipment and systems be-tween NATO and nations.Expected start execution stage: 1Q16.

Multinational Malware Information Sharing Platform (MISP) - Aims to maintain and expand the MISP in terms of technical ca-pabilities and contributing members in order to enhance informa-tion sharing.MN MISP is executed under the lead of LN Belgium⁴.

Multinational Cyber Defence Education and Training (MN CD E&T) - Aims to create CD E&T Coordination Platform and provide new initiatives to fulfi l Nations’ and NATO’s CD E&T shortfalls.MN MISP is executed under the lead of LN Belgium3.

Multinational NATO Exercises and Training (MN NEXT) - Aims to provide the programmatic structure that will allow NATO and national commands to execute exercise and training activities in a cost-sharing basis in order to address needs not supported by any NATO common funded activity.The Feasibility Study is expected to be completed in 4Q16.

BRAAD Acquisition - Builds on the outcomes of Air Surveillance studies for Albania, FYROM³, and Bulgaria. Subject to agreement between the nations and the NCI Agency, a BRAAD Acquisition project could be established with the NCI Agency supporting the acquisition process

1 Control and Reporting Centre² Pre-acquisition study for Bosnia and Herzegovina, FYROM³, Montenegro is

executed under the lead of Lead Nation (LN) Croatia⁴

*N1S for NFS – NATO 1st Solution for NATO Force Structure

³ Turkey recognizes the Republic of Macedonia with its constitutional name

⁴ See latest ACT Smart Defence Status Report

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NATO capabilities required by the Strategic Commanders are developed and imple-mented through the NATO Common Fund-ing process.

Taking advantage of the years of NATO investment in development of its capabili-ties, nations may then decide to use NATO solutions for (multi)-national purposes. In this context and provided a group of na-tions shares the same interests, they may seek support of the NCI Agency through the establishment of a C&I Partnership. The NCI Agency will provide advice and support to the nations in implementing the NATO 1st Solution and using its ex-pertise in NATO capabilities development and service provision. The C&I Partner-ships activities are based on established NATO solutions, remain under the NATO policies and governance, and are funded by the nations participating to the specific Partnership.

Any development work identified through the service provision under the C&I Partnerships can inform the NATO ca-pability development process. In case the proposed enhancements to NATO solutions are not required by the Strategic Commands or not affordable by NATO, na-tions can still carry out that work under (multi)-national funding by establishing Multinational Projects, or through other cooperation frameworks, like bilateral projects, Brokerage agreements or Trust Funds.

The (multi)-nationally developed and funded capabilities, functionalities or components can in turn influence the NATO developed solutions. Subject to conditions set by the developing nations, and if supported by NATO these multina-tional solutions can be offered to NATO and contribute to the enhancement of existing or development of new common funded capabilities.

Project Name MAJIIC MN CD2 MN ADAPTAir

Surveillance

ACCS Extension/

ASBE²MN SSSB³ MN CRC (CSI)⁴

BRAAD Pre-Acquisition

StudyTACOMS+

NST C&IP Preparation

StageAirC2 C&IP C3S C&IP MN MISP⁵ MN CD E&T⁵

BRAAD Acquisition

Project Duration 2010-2016 2013-2017 2015-2019 2000-2015 2015-2019 2014- 2014- 2012-2015 2011-2014 2014-2015 TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD

LCCC AREA JISR CD CA JISR AC2 AC2 AC2 AC2 CA CA AC2 CD CD CD AC2

Smart Defence Number n/a 1.27 1.31 n/a n/a n/a n/a 2.76 n/a 2.83 2.103 1.35 1.36

Lead Nation (LN) CA NE CR UK and NO BE PO

ALBANIA 07/04/2011 SEE AL ALAUSTRALIA not signed Contact AUSAUSTRIA not signed PartnerBELGIUM not signed NEE BE BE BE BEBOSNIA - HERZEGOVINA not signed Partner BIHBULGARIA 24/02/2010 SEE BU BU BU BU BU BU BUCANADA 26/06/2012 NA CA CA CACROATIA 29/06/2010 SEE CR CR CR CRCZECH REPUBLIC 06/10/2010 NEE CZ CZ CZ CZ CZ CZDENMARK 16/05/2012 NEE DE DE DE DE DEESTONIA 11/05/2010 NEE ES ES ES ESFINLAND 09/06/2009 Partner FIN FIN FIN FINFRANCE 29/04/2010 WE FR FR FR FR FR FR FR FR

the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia¹

12/04/2012 Partner FYROM¹

GEORGIA not signed PartnerGERMANY 12/03/2013 NEE GE GE GE GE GE GE GE GE GEGREECE not signed SEE GR GR GR GRHUNGARY not signed NEE HU HU HU HUICELAND not signed WE IC ICITALY 03/03/2008 SEE IT IT IT IT IT IT ITLATVIA not signed NEE LA LALITHUANIA not signed NEE LI LI LI LILUXEMBOURG not signed NEE LUMOLDOVA not signed PartnerMONTENEGRO not signed Partner MONNETHERLANDS 04/05/2011 NEE NE NE NE NE NE NE NE NE NE NENEW ZEALAND not signed ContactNORWAY 21/04/2010 NEE NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NOPOLAND 24/02/2011 NEE PL PL PL PL PL PL PL PLPORTUGAL 09/04/2015 WE PO PO PO POROMANIA 06/07/2012 SEE RO RO RO RO RO ROSERBIA not signed PartnerSLOVAKIA 16/05/2014 NEE SK SK SKSLOVENIA 28/06/2010 SEE SN SN SN SN SNSPAIN not signed WE SP SP SP SP SP SP SP SPSWEDEN 20/06/2007 Partner SWE SWE SWESWITZERLAND not signed Partner SWITURKEY not signed SEE TU TU TU TU TU TU TUUNITED KINGDOM 28/10/2010 WE UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UKUNITED STATES not signed NA US US US US

PARTICIPATION 9 4 3 3 11 8 22 4 7 7

POTENTIAL PARTICIPATION 7 10 10 2

SOI PROVIDED 7 2 4 11 15 15

TOTAL PARTICIPATION 9 18 15 3 11 8 22 4 7 7 14 13 15 15

¹ Turkey recognizes Republic of Macedonia with its constitutional name ³ FORACS is also participant to the Support Agreement ⁵ See the last ACT Smart Defence Status Report .² 75/25 %share between Common funding and national funding ⁴ SHAPE is also participant to the Support Agreement

List of Abbreviations (in alphabetical order):AirC2 C&IP - Air Command and Control Communications & Information Partnership MN ADAPT - Multinational Alliance Defence Analysis and Planning for Transformation NA - North AmericaAir Surveillance CZE/HUN/POL - Radars Acquisition and integration for Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland MN CD2 - Multinational Cyber Defence Capability Development NEE - North Eastern EuropeBRAAD - Balkan Regional Approach to Air Defence MN CD E&T - Multinational Cyber Defence Education and Training NST C&IP - NATO Software Tools Communications & Information PartnershipC3S C&IP - Consultation, Command and Control Standards Communications & Information Partnership MN CRC (CSI) - Multinational Control and Reporting Centre (CRC) System Interface SEE - South Eastern EuropeLCCC - Lisbon Critical Capabilities Commitment MN MISP - Multinational Malware Information Sharing Platform SOI - Statement of InterestMAJIIC - Multi-Intelligence All-Source Joint Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Interoperability Coalition MN NEXT - Multi-National NATO Exercise and Training TACOMS+ - Tactical CommunicationsMN ACCS Extension/ASBE - Multinational ACCS Extension/ASBE (ACCS Software Based Element) MN SSSB - Multinational Ship-Shore-Ship-Buffer WE - Western Europe

PROSPECTIVE C&I PARTNERSHIPS AND MN PROJECTS

NATION C4ISR MOU

ESTABLISHED C&I PARTNERSHIPS AND MN PROJECTS