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NATO Land Command & Control (C2) system achieves major milestones

The NCI Agency C2 Service Line is leading the acquisition and support of NATO’s new Land Command & Control (C2) system, known as the Land C2 Information System (LC2IS).

Agency supports NATO’s largest technology trial

The NCI Agency is playing an important enabling role in the largest ever test of NATO’s intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities that began on 19 May at Ørland Air Station in Norway. Over 20 colleagues are on the ground, supporting the event.

NATO Agency procures capability for enhanced Air Command and Control Surveillance and Identification

On 12 May 2014, the NCI Agency has officially awarded to the Czech Company "ERA a.s." a contract amounting to 434 million Czech Koruna (around 16M€) for the provision of two Deployable Passive ESM (Electronic System Measure) Trackers (or DPET) for NATO Air Command and Control Surveillance and Identification.

NCI Agency's First Legal Workshop

Upon request by several Nations during the last Chief Information Officers (CIO) meeting, the NCI Agency hosted 29-30 April a workshop on the legal models available for cooperation with the Agency.

Publication on computer network defence, incident detection and incident response

NATO is advancing its efforts to both confront and address the wide range of cyber threats faced by Allies each day and this includes engaging industry, academia, and public institutions in these efforts.

Deployable ACCS used in exercise Ramstein Dust1

During the first week in April the Deployable Air Command and Control system (ACCS), (DARS) participated in exercise Ramstein Dust 1. This was the first deployment since DARS relocated from the Netherlands to its new base in Italy as part of the Deployable Air Command and Control Center (DACCC). The deployment to the Italian airbase of Rivolto, some 200km from the garrison site was undertaken using the units organic transportation equipment procured via the NATO Support Agency (NSPA) on NCI Agency's behalf.

NCI Agency General Manager meets with Croatian Minister of Defence

The Croatian Minister of Defence Mr Ante Kotromanović hosted the NCI Agency General Manager, Mr Koen Gijsbers, in Zagreb on 28 April 2014.

NCI Agency COS hosts Senior Swedish Government Officials

As part of the current bilateral agreement between Sweden and the NCI Agency, the Agency Chief of Staff MGEN Luis Andrey hosted BGEN Nilsson from the Swedish Defence Material Administration (FMV), and BGEN Hallin, Head of C4ISR at the Swedish Armed Forces at the NCI Agency The Hague on 8 April 2014. In addition, MGEN Engelbrektson from Sweden and COL Bijnens from Belgium participated in the visit representing the Connected Forces Initiative Task Force.

NCI Agency Drives NATO IT & Communication Modernization

2014 sees the completion of the migration of NATO's communication network from a Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) to an Ethernet based system, which will provide the transmission services required for high speed communication between the main NATO nodes representing a total of 60 sites across the 28 NATO member nations.

Provisional System Acceptance of 1st Polish FADR System

On 27 March 2014, Provisional System Acceptance (PSA) was granted for the first of three Polish Fixed Position Air Defence Radar (FADR) systems. Procured as part of a broader programme, these radars, produced by Selex ES in Italy, will complement Poland's existing systems and, once fully integrated with NATO's Air Command and Control System, provide an important addition to NATO's air defence. The significance of this achievement can be measured by the participation of General Krzystof Zabicki, head of Poland's Radar Division, in the acceptance meeting held on 13 March 2014 (coincidently, the week Poland celebrated 15 years of NATO membership).

NCI Agency General Manager meets with President Rosen Plevneliev

On the occasion of the celebrations of the 10 year anniversary of Bulgaria's accession to NATO, the NCI Agency General Manager, Mr Koen Gijsbers, delivered a presentation on how the Agency could function as a Cooperation Platform in support of Nations during a two-day international conference "Future NATO" on 4 April in Sofia.

Agency successfully installs first AirC2IS Operational Baseline at AIRCOM

The Air Command and Control Information Services (AirC2IS) is a component of the Bi-Strategic Command Automated Information System (Bi-SC AIS). It is a non- real-time C2 system which will support air staff at all levels and locations of the NATO Command Structure.

NCI Agency support to the preparation of the NSS 2014

On 24 and 25 March 2014 the Netherlands hosted the Nuclear Security Summit 2014 (NSS 2014). In order to prepare the various Command and Control (C2) staffs for their specific tasks during the NSS 2014, the Dutch National Police cooperated with the NATO Communications and Information (NCI) Agency. In order to assess and improve various C2 processes, a training and exercise programme was put together.

NATO Agency outlines major Transatlantic business opportunities

From 24 to 27 March, some 600 senior European and North American Industry representatives, officials and experts were briefed on significant contract opportunities that will come as NATO fundamentally reshapes its IT infrastructure and continues to invest in priority capabilities including joint intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, air command and control, and ballistic missile defence.

Visit of Portuguese National Defence Policy Director Mr Nuno Pinheiro Torres to the NCI Agency

On behalf of Director Demand Management, Dr Velizar Shalamanov, Mr Eric Lievre, Chief Strategic Partnership and Customer Relationship Management welcomed the Portuguese National Defence Policy Director, Mr Nuno Pinheiro Torres to the NCI Agency to discuss topics of mutual interest.

1GNC Strategic Partnership for Connected Forces Initiative

On 14 March, an agreement on working arrangements and multi-year programme of work was signed between the 1 German Netherlands Corps (1GNC) and the Agency. It is the first example of re-use of NATO Afghanistan investments to boost Nations readiness for the elite NATO Response Force.