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Initiative for NATO Forces Readiness and Interoperability Partnership (NRIP)
Scoping Paper
Enclosure 2 toNCIA/DM/2016/02367
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Table of Contents
LIST OF FIGURES ..................................................................................................................................................... 3
REFERENCES ........................................................................................................................................................... 4
VERSION HISTORY .................................................................................................................................................. 4
1 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................. 5
2 READINESS ACTION PLAN .............................................................................................................................. 6
3 NATO FIRST SOLUTION .................................................................................................................................. 8
4 NATO FORCE READINESS AND INTEROPERABILITY PARTNERSHIP ................................................................ 13
ACRONYMS .......................................................................................................................................................... 16
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List of Figures Figure 1: Security Context ...................................................................................................................... 5
Figure 2: Readiness Action Plan dimensions ........................................................................................... 6
Figure 3: Connected Forces Readiness program ..................................................................................... 7
Figure 4: Readiness Action Plan support ................................................................................................ 7
Figure 5: N1S Implementation in FMN Framework ................................................................................. 8
Figure 6: N1S roll out ............................................................................................................................. 9
Figure 7: NATO Interoperable, Secure, Affordable, Fast and Easy ........................................................... 9
Figure 8: NATO 1st Solution (s) for One NATO Interoperability .............................................................. 11
Figure 9: N1S Partnerships ................................................................................................................... 12
Figure 10: Warsaw Summit Outcome .................................................................................................... 13
Figure 11: NRIP in support to Summit decisions ..................................................................................... 14
Figure 12: NRIP environment ................................................................................................................. 15
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REFERENCES Reference Number Description
1 NCIO - CHARTER OF THE NATO COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION ORGANISATION (NCIO) C-M(2012)0049
2 Wales Summit Communiqué (05 Sep 2014)
3 Warsaw Summit Communiqué (8-9 Jul 2016)
4 Concept for the Mission Information Room (MIR) SH/CCD J6/CISOP PLA/052/16-312841
VERSION HISTORY
Version Status Action Officer(s)
0.3 Initial draft for informal staffing LTC Krzysztof Stachura
0.4 Second draft for further staffing LTC Krzysztof Stachura
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1 INTRODUCTION At the 2014 Wales Summit, NATO agreed a Readiness Action Plan (RAP) to ensure the Alliance is ready to
respond swiftly and firmly to new security challenges.
At the Warsaw Summit in July 2016, leaders decided to strengthen the Alliance’s military presence in the
east, with four battalions to be in place starting 2017. They also agreed to develop a tailored forward
presence in the south-eastern part of the Alliance and recognised cyberspace as a domain of operations.
Figure 1: Security Context
This is the most significant reinforcement of NATO's collective defence since the end of the Cold War,
when the Alliance is facing a range of security challenges and threats that originate both from the east
and from the south; from state and non-state actors; from military forces and from terrorist, cyber, or
hybrid attacks as illustrated in the map as shown in Figure 1:.
A Post-Summit implementation plan for work on deterrence and defence has been developed, including (but not limited to) the following strands:
1. Follow-on Readiness Action Plan-related work, in particular training of follow-on forces, logistics and the future of Assurance Measures,
2. Implementation of the enhanced Forward Presence (including Command and Control), 3. Implementation of the tailored Forward Presence in the Black Sea regions (including additional
air and maritime elements).
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2 READINESS ACTION PLAN The RAP is the largest NATO effort of the last 2 decades in response to range of security challenges and
threats presented above, and has to be considered in its multi-dimensional facet.
Figure 2: Readiness Action Plan dimensions
As a reminder, the Readiness Action Plan is built on two pillars:
Assurance Measures – enhanced presence of NATO forces on the territory of eastern Allies, on a
rotational basis.
Adaptation Measures – changes to the Alliance’s long-term military posture and capabilities.
Adaptation measures will enhance NATO’s military posture and readiness levels. They include:
Enhancing the NATO Response Force (NRF);
Creating a new Spearhead Force (Very High Readiness Joint Task Force), as the flagship element
of the enhanced NRF;
Establishing multinational command and control elements – the NATO Force Integration Units
(NFIUs) – on the territories of Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Romania initially,
and then Hungary and Slovakia;
Raising the readiness and capabilities of the Headquarters Multinational Corps Northeast in
Szczecin, Poland;
Establishing a new deployable Multinational Divisional Headquarters as Multinational Division
Southeast
From a C4ISR perspective, the NCI Agency is actively involved in all abovementioned initiatives, from
building strategic partnerships to the provision of related services and the delivery of capabilities
through common funded capability packages and national/multinational funding. To ensure a
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programmatic approach, the NCI Agency established the Connected Forces Readiness program (CFRp)
with a single Director as Senior Responsible Officer.
Figure 3: Connected Forces Readiness program
After the successful implementation of NFIUs in 6 Nations (with 2 more to follow in 2016), the upgrade of
HQ MNC-NE and establishment of static CIS for HQ MND-SE (deployable CIS to follow in 2017), an
important step in the C4ISR aspects of the RAP has been achieved, supported by the NCI Agency in strong
partnership with industry and under clear leadership of IC, ACT, SHAPE, and all involved Nations.
Figure 4: Readiness Action Plan support
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3 NATO FIRST SOLUTION
The CFRp was underpinned by the NATO First Solution (N1S). The intent of the N1S is to provide unified
yet tailored CIS support to External Customers: NATO Force Structure, NATO Nations, Multinational
Organizations and Partner Nations.
Figure 5: N1S Implementation in FMN Framework
The N1S implementation is based on the concept of “re-use what we have” (not only common funded,
nationally / multinationally funded as well) and is therefore providing a consolidated set of services
referenced in our Customer Service Catalogue. It is also conducted in coordination with some of the high
level initiatives in place or under development, such as the NATO Software Tools C&I Partnership and the
Federated Mission Networking (FMN) project, as illustrated in Fig 5.
The N1S proposes the deployment of the existing products, tools or designs, intended to ensure full
interoperability and reduce the logistics support footprint while providing streamlined adaptation to
national systems and flexibility through modularity and component reuse – all in NATO secure
environment. The solution is intended to facilitate a prompt and cost-effective implementation, in
accordance with the defined timelines. N1S pays a special attention to the CIS Security aspects as well as
to the management and control of the services over the full life cycle of the capability.
The initial implementation of the N1S started with a turn-key solution for the first German-Netherlands
Corps (1GNC), continued with the support of the Multinational Corps North-East through a Multiyear
Programme of Work and the design and implementation of the Multinational Division South-East, the 9
GRF(L), under the advocacy of LANDCOM. This Command and the NCI Agency have worked closely
together to craft the best possible solutions, meeting each of these sites’ requirements emanating from
the Long Term Rotation Plan (LTRP) and the Military Training and Exercise Programme (MTEP).
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Figure 6: N1S roll out
This concept is now extended to other Communities of Interest, as in the figure showing a larger roll-out
of the N1S, including in addition to MARCOM and LANDCOM, the Special Operations Forces and the
Connected Exercises and Training domain communities.
Simultaneously, some nations have indicated that N1S should be extended from the Strategic level to the
Tactical level to cover full operational use, in and beyond combat.
Figure 7: NATO Interoperable, Secure, Affordable, Fast and Easy
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Interoperability is essential to successful operations, meaning that national and NATO systems must exchange data and information with each other electronically (while still protecting national prerogatives and security concerns). An example of this are the NCI Agency Mission Information Services that were established through the implementation of individual Mission Information Room (MIR) as an approach to interoperability to fulfil:
The requirement to have an information exchange capability from the static NCS with various missions.
The ability for information exchange during the planning and preparation phase of missions.
The scope of the MIR foresees information exchange to the deployed environment.
Finally it provides the ability to transition the required data information back from the mission environment into the static environment to support Lessons Learned analysis and follow-on training.
Mission Information Room (MIR):
The overarching Concept for the Mission Information Room (MIR) has been established by SHAPE (SH/CCD J6/CISOP PLA/052/16-312841 dated 9 March 2016). The concept describes how the capability is employed to support the planning and preparation of NATO operations and missions, to enable rapid transition to execution, whether deployed, "in situ" or a combination of the two, and to train and prepare NATO Response Forces (NRF) in both Preparation and Stand-by phases. It outlines the functional capabilities of the MIR and its supporting technical services and the principal roles involved in its use and support. Finally, the MIR Concept describes how the MIR implements the Collective Training Environment (CTE), Operations Planning Environment (OPE) and Mission Execution Environment (MEE) as defined in the NATO Federated Mission Networks (FMN) Implementation Plan and supports the principles of FMN.
Access to MIR: There are two aspects to gaining access to MIR capability, technical and procedural.
From a technical standpoint, the procedure for accessing the MIR has been established in NCIA SOP 09.06, signed 01 August 2016.
From a procedural standpoint, granting access to the MIR(s) is the exclusive responsibility of JFC Brunssum and Naples as the operational Custodian of the MIR capability.
o Both JFC’s have been tasked to develop a bi-JFC SOP, with a focus on operational/procedural matters. This remains to be completed.
o In the absence of any developed SOP/process, Nations will need to approach each JFC as and when required. The responsibility for granting/denying access to the MIR rests exclusively with ACO.
Federated Mission Network or FMN is NATO’s state of the art approach to support better command and
control through enhanced decision making in future operations. FMN enables improved information
sharing among mission participants. As a result, Commanders are presented with more complete and
reliable operational picture. FMN will provide information for any conceivable mission from
humanitarian aid to full scale armed conflict and with any mix of qualified partners: NATO, its member
and partner nations, or other countries and organizations willing to collaborate with NATO.
FMN is not a technical solution. Rather it makes better use of technology through a smart combination
of doctrine, leadership, system and services configuration, procedures, verification and validation,
security assessment and accreditation as well as collective training events
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FMN is built on 3 pillars:
a strong governance structure;
a certified and constantly improving FMN Framework of pre-planned procedures and standards
and;
the capability to generate federate mission networks to meet mission specific needs.
Using the existing systems and solutions does not only ensure the interoperability but also avoids the
nations paying twice for some of these capabilities (i.e. common funding was used to develop those
capabilities that nations are now interested in implementing). The N1S is therefore the solution to provide
NATO Interoperability in Secure environment, Affordable way, Fast and Easy for Nations (NFS) – so NISAFE.
Figure 8: NATO 1st Solution (s) for One NATO Interoperability
With the NATO common-funded capabilities as a foundation, and supported by multiple Advisory Groups,
the N1S components formed a full suite of solutions for Communications Services, Core Enterprise
Services, Community of Interest (CoI) Services and all related individual training and service support. The
consolidated set of services is referenced in the NCI Agency Customer Services Catalogue, available on-
line.
In addition, a specific brochure dedicated to the N1S has been developed and will be complemented by
the N1S Implementation Framework by the end of September 2016.
The N1S is a journey where the NCI Agency, the Customer and the Industry are engaged at different stages
as illustrated in Figure 9:
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Figure 9: N1S Partnerships
The main benefits for Nations or Organizations implementing the NATO First Solution include:
Guaranteed interoperability with the NATO Command Structure through seamless integration
with existing NATO capabilities;
Cost effectiveness by leveraging approved of existing common funded capabilities and avoiding
redevelopment costs;
Reduced complexity of the implemented solutions, through partnerships with the operational
community and industry; and
Train as you fight: using the same infrastructure and applications during training and exercises as
those used in operational theatres.
In addition, a Technical Advisory Group of NATEXes within NCI Agency could provide national input from
National military and industrial prospective to help implement NATO First Solution (N1S) in support to
RAP and LTA of NATO with focus on External customers (NFS, NATO Nations, Multi-National Organisations
and Partner Nations) under the governance of the Agency Supervisory Board (ASB).
A further step to extend C4ISR support to the RAP is the Standing Mission Network (SMN) proposal from
US EUCOM. This essential development will underpin NATO’s Long Term Adaptation not just to the East
and South, but 360 degrees and could include kind of RAP-Cyber. The NCI Agency could support the
development and implementation of a Standing Mission Network initiative in a similar way that the
Agency supported the NFIU-MNC-MND CIS build-up under the leadership of Military Committee
(Nations)-SHAPE-ACT – an initiative that was based on a defined military requirement by Nations using
national / multinational funding.
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Development of a SMN could impact the NFS, NRF and territorial elements, engaged in forward
multinational rotational presence and reinforcement as part of NATO’s deterrence and defence posture.
Including the 8 NFIU nations and nations providing the VJTF, eventual implementation of the SMN could
lead to requirements to upgrade the C2 structures of 30+ brigades and several Air and Maritime HQs
stretching from the North (Baltic Sea and Norwegian Sea) to the South (Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea),
mostly in the East, but deep inside Alliance territory as well.
Obviously, the implementation of ACCS (incl. ASBE roll out and AC2 C&I Partnership) and BMD is the
foundation for RAP-Air and Cyber Pledge from Warsaw could be used for RAP-Cyber definition, making
RAP not just geographically 360 degree, but domain wise as well.
As a conclusion, there are many initiatives related to the RAP implementation that can be linked to the
N1S implementation. In addition to the aforementioned, we could add the ERI (European Reassurance
Initiative), TACET (Trans-Atlantic Capability Enhancement and Training) program, and CJET (Combined
Joint Enhanced Training) initiative and the clusters of activities under the Framework Nations Concept.,
or the implementation of the Federated Mission Networking.
4 NATO FORCE READINESS AND INTEROPERABILITY PARTNERSHIP
Following the Declaration of the Presidents of Eastern European Nations from Bucharest (November,
2015), there is an opportunity for CHODs of these nations to define military requirements for the NATO
forward presence, enhanced exercise program and overall improvement of the readiness and
interoperability between NCS, NFS and national forces potentially engaged in RAP activities throughout
NATO and beyond. It could form a NATO Forces Readiness and Interoperability Partnership (NRIP)
Initiative.
Figure 10: Warsaw Summit Outcome
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The overall NRIP is taking into consideration the three pillars of the Post-Summit Implementation Plan for
Deterrence and Defence to adopt a comprehensive programmatic approach focusing on support of “One
NATO” vision.
The Geographical dimension of the plan cover the territorial host nations, while the operational dimension
addresses the framework nations and forces from across the Alliance.
Figure 11: NRIP in support to Summit decisions
The NRIP initiative encompasses the Connected Forces Readiness program previously set up to address
RAP implementation and federates all activities related to the defence and deterrence implementation
plan resulting from decisions taken at the Warsaw Summit. The JFCs are in an ideal position to Champion
the NRIP in their respective AORs.
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Figure 12: NRIP environment
The implementation of the NRIP Initiative will also be based on the N1S Implementation Framework, with
the development of other partnerships. Through experience with LANDCOM and MARCOM, the NCI
Agency has established that the most productive method of quickly moving forward in a particular domain
is to state the high level objectives in a Joint Partnership Statement (JPS) with the leading command or
headquarters within that domain. Although these JPSs are not legally binding, they set out the
Commander’s guidance for enhanced readiness and interoperability. As part of the partnership, the
command or headquarters acts as an advocate for N1S with other commands, HQs and nations that are
active in the domain, while the Agency contributes to the partnership through the delivery of the required
C4ISR services and capabilities that enhance interoperability within the domain and within NATO as a
whole.
In addition to the two JPSs that the NCI Agency already has with LANDCOM and MARCOM, further Joint
Partnerships could include a JPS between NCI Agency and JFC Brunssum in support of NRIP as well as
individual JPSs between the NCI Agency, AIRCOM, USAREUR, the Special Forces Community and others.
Furthermore, new partnerships with industry may include the creation of a N1S BOAs, enabling easier and
faster implementation of N1S services by national companies.
The NCI Agency already has partnership agreements with a number of R&D organisations and these could
be exploited more effectively through BOAs and be expanded to include additional Not-For-Profit (NFP)
BOAs for other C&I Agencies to support the Programme of Work activities for the NATO Force Structure,
NATO nations, Multi-National Organisations and Partners.
Being a lonely player is not anymore an option and Partnership have to be sought for the sake of bringing NATO Interoperability in Secure environment,
Affordable way, Fast and Easy.
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ACRONYMS Acronyms Description 1GNC First German-Netherlands Corps AFPL Approved Fielded Product List Air C2 Air Command and Control ASB Agency Supervisory Board BMD Ballistic Missile Defence C2 Command and Control CES Core Enterprise Services CIS Communication and Information Security CIO Chief Information Officers C&IP Communications and Information Partnership CJET Combined Joint Enhanced Training Initiative
CRF Customer Requirements Form CS Cyber Security DPPC Defence Policy and Planning Committee E&T Education and Training ERI European Reassurance Initiative
IV&V Independent Verification and Validation JISR Joint Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance JTF(L) (HQ) Joint Task Force (Land) Headquarters LANDCOM Land Command MoD Ministry of Defence
MN Multinational
MoA Memorandum of Agreement
MoU Memorandum of Understanding
MYPOW Multi Year Programme of Work
N1S NATO First Solution
NC3A NATO Command, Control and Communications Agency
NATEX National Technical Experts
NCIRC NATO Computer Incident Response Capability
NCOP NATO Common Operating Picture
NFIU NATO Force Integration Units
NFS NATO Force Structure
NIAG NATO Industrial Advisory Group
NISAFE NATO Interoperable, Secure, Affordable Fast and Easy
NMR National Military Representatives
NDPP NATO Defence Planning Process
NRDC-ITA NATO Rapid Deployment Corps- Italy
NRF NATO Response Force
NSII Network Services and IT Infrastructure
NSIP NATO Security Investment Programme
O&A Operational Analysis
O&E Operations and Exercises
PARP Peace Planning and Review Process
PIAG Partner Interoperability Advocacy Group
R&D Research and Development
RDC Rapid Deployable Corps
RPPB Resource Policy and Planning Board
SecGen Secretary General
SL Service Line
SSA Service Support Agreement
SSBA Service Support and Business Application
SSF Service Support Framework
SSP Service Support Package
STRIKFORNATO Striking and Support Forces NATO
TACET Transatlantic Capability Enhancement and Training Initiative
VJTF/GRF(L) Very High Readiness Joint Task Force/ Graduated Readiness Forces Land
VoSIP Voice over Secure Internet Protocol