NATO Network Enabled Capability Research Articles

Systems Integration in Military Environment

The article highlights the major concepts of systems integration in a military environment, especially the NATO Network Enabled Capability and Federal Mission Networking. Both concepts were implemented into the Czech Armed Forces and adapted to fit their ambitions, possibilities, tasks and specific goals. The primary goal of this adoption was to achieve the capabilities to work in a coalition environment. The experiences from Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance integration projects are presented in the second part of the article. After assessing the current state, development goals are characterized as challenges that need to be addressed with a solution that is described.

Toward federated mission networking in the tactical domain

NATO is currently working on the Federated Mission Networking (FMN) concept, which will become the foundation for establishing mission networks in the future. The realization of the FMN concept is described in the NATO FMN Implementation Plan (NFIP). The information infrastructure outlined in NFIP today builds on the concept of service-oriented architecture in order to achieve interoperability, and bases itself on many of the same standards and specifications as the ones identified through NATO Network Enabled Capabilities (NNEC). The NNEC SOA Baseline [1] identifies a number of core enterprise services that represent the common functionality needed to build an interoperable service-oriented infrastructure in a federation. It further identifies which standards should be used to realize these core services while ensuring interoperability between the federation members. A subset of these capabilities includes messaging services, collaboration services, service discovery, and security services. This article looks into each of these foundational core services, presents the challenges related to extending support for these services into the tactical domain, and identifies potential solutions.

Possibilities of Verification of the Required Capabilities According to NATO Network Enabled Capabilities Concept

Abstract The article discusses the possibilities of utilization of the virtual simulators to verify achieving of required capabilities in accordance with NATO NEC Concept. Verification of the required capabilities by experiments are one of the fundamental tools of the Concept Development & Experimentation (CD&E) is the application of the structure and methods of experimental science to the challenge of developing future military capability. Just reliably carried out experiments within virtually generated real operational environment conditions can validate, in the first stage, if the newly developed and introduced technological means and newly defined tactics, techniques and procedures are able to increase the units’ combat effectiveness within present and future operations. Keywords: NATO, NEC, CD&E, concept development, experimentation, capabilities, virtual simulator.