To support the planning phase, NCIA’s JISR Centre was responsible for organizing the planning conferences and scripting workshops as well as preparing the exercise set-up, scenario, communication and information systems (CIS) configuration and liaising with the Host Nation. For the execution, NCIA ensured that the exercise ran smoothly, provided the leadership and supervised the delivery of training in order to be certain that the training objectives were met.
“Ultimately, biometrics and I2 are designed to deny the enemy anonymity. These capabilities can help answer ‘who’-related intelligence collection requirements to discover threat identities, attribute those identities to places and events, and to associate those identities to other threat actors, thereby illuminating a threat network that can be shared across the Alliance in order to enhance our security,” illustrated Lieutenant Commander Clement Herron, Deputy Exercise Director from SHAPE.
In addition to leading the exercise, the JISR team provided functional support and training for several operational systems which assisted the planning, preparation and execution. This included tools and capabilities which share biometric data between Nations, support the intelligence collection process and provide analysts with a wider intelligence perspective.
“The NOSP series represents a unique opportunity for NATO Nations to train their Biometrics Operators, Identity Intelligence Analysts and Legal Advisers in a relevant scenario that replicates the current realities,” explained Radu Cimpean, ISR Senior Operation Specialist and NOSP Exercise Director. “The participants practiced sharing biometrics data and exercised production of Identity Intelligence under the oversight of Legal advisors within a simulated environment reproducing a conventional warfare which may arise from the declaration of Article 5.”