NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, General Philippe Lavigne, recently welcomed NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe General Christopher G. Cavoli in Norfolk, Virginia, home of NATO - Allied Command Transformation (ACT). The main goals of the visit were to foster a closer relationship between the two strategic commands and to discuss the complex security climate challenges.
General Lavigne stressed the importance of sharing ideas and exchanging perspectives on the future military strategic developments within the Alliance: “Resilience and the military need for Multi-Domain Operations enabled by NATO’s Digital Transformation is at the core of our everyday actions. Today, as an Alliance, we are operating in multiple domains. To help NATO to keep the edge, we are working hand in hand to enable NATO to carry out multi-domain operations tomorrow.”
Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) is responsible for the planning and execution of all Alliance operations. The Command’s overall aim is to contribute to Allied defence and security by maintaining the integrity of Alliance territory, safeguarding freedom of the seas and economic lifelines, and to preserve or restore the security of its members today.
NATO - Allied Command Transformation (ACT) tailors, shapes, and improves to keep the Alliance at the leading edge of modern challenges. In the long term the Command is focusing on the definition of a new and ambitious Concept supporting NATO Warfighting. NATO Allied Command Transformation also provides the Alliance with both an extensive effort in terms of interoperability improvements and a new posture aimed at gathering the state-of-the-art of innovative solutions.
Tight cooperation between the two NATO’s strategic commands is essential for achieving NATO’s fundamental security tasks, overcoming its challenges and utilizing the opportunities it faces in a changing security environment today and tomorrow.
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The accession for Finland and Sweden has been the fastest in NATO’s modern history. NATO - Allied Command Transformation (ACT) is leading the military integration part of the whole process. Therefore, Supreme Allied Commander Transformation General Philippe Lavigne today welcomed Finland and Sweden Ambassadors to NATO and USA, as well as Finland and Sweden Military Representatives to NATO, Sweden Defence Attaché to USA and Finland Deputy Defence Counsellor to USA.
The most important topic of the discussions at NATO Allied Command Transformation was the assuring that both nations are moving forward in a timely manner to interoperability and integration of their military forces into the Alliance’s military structures. In early December, an official progress update will be provided to #NATO leadership in Brussels.
Learn more on Finland’s and Sweden’s accession to The Alliance on the new NATO Innovation Podcast episode “Accession and Military Integration: #Finland and #Sweden”:
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Finland's and Sweden's official delegations visiting NATO Allied Command Transformation
Highlights of the week:
🔦NATO Supreme Allied Commander Transformation General Philippe Lavigne introduced NATO allied Comand's Transformation work on better operational capabilities to the Alliance & its warfighters to NATO’s Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy Ambassador Baiba Braže, during her visit to the Command in Norfolk, USA.
🔦 The accession for Finland and Sweden has been the fastest in NATO’s modern history. NATO Allied Command Transformation is leading the military integration part of the whole process. Supreme Allied Commander Transformation General Philippe Lavigne welcomed official delegations of Finland and Sweden to talk through the military integration as a part of the whole countries' accession to the Alliance process. Learn more on Finland’s and Sweden’s accession to The Alliance on the new NATO Innovation Podcast episode “Accession and Military Integration: Finland and Sweden”: https://bit.ly/3flY1Xu
🔦 This week the 22nd anniversary of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 #UNSCR1325 on Women, Peace and Security was celebrated! Headquarters Supreme Allied Commander Transformation on this occasion hosted the first Allied Command Transformation Gender Advisor Conference.
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Highlights of the week:
🔦NATO - Allied Command Transformation (ACT)-led Wargaming Initiative for NATO 2022 took place in Paris, France, October 18-19. It kick-started the creation of an open wargaming community as another indispensable component of the Alliance’s wargaming capability. The efforts of the #Wargaming Initiative for NATO 2022 will continue throughout the year and will culminate next year during the Wargaming Initiative for NATO 2023, hosted by Italy; these two events will serve as the kick-off to annual Wargaming Initiatives for the years to come.
🔦The aim of the #NATO Defence Planning Process is to provide a framework within which defence planning activities can be harmonised to enable Allies to provide the required forces & capabilities in the most effective way.
More here: https://www.act.nato.int/ndpp
🔦NATO’s AlliedCommand Transformation prepared the Fall 2022 Think-Tank for Information Decision and Execution Superiority (TIDE) Sprint, which is coming to Virginia Beach, US next week. It will bring together participants from #NATO, nations, industry, and academia to explore ideas, concepts, and requirements necessary for the Alliance #DigitalTransformation. Stay tuned! https://www.act.nato.int/articles/tide-sprint-fall-2022
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NDPP
How does @NATO deliver deterrence and defence?
How does it harmonize capabilities?
How does it ensure fair burden sharing?
Why does #NATO sounds better when it "plays" in unison?
All the answers in the video below!
More: https://www.act.nato.int/ndpp
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Space underpins #NATO's ability to navigate and track forces, facilitates robust communications, detects missile launches, ensures effective command and control, and much more. Space is an operational domain for NATO.
Therefore, France and NATO - Allied Command Transformation (ACT) are working to develop a Centre of Excellence devoted exclusively to Space. The new Centre of Excellence is expected to be accredited in 2023. More about the new Space Centre of Excellence here:
https://act.nato.int/.../france-and-allied-command...
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Deterre and defence
Alliance members are committed to protect the freedom and security of each other, against all threats, from all directions. NATO safeguards 1 billion citizens. The deterre and defence of any adversary is core to our mission.
Please, watch the video, prepared by Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) for your full briefing on this new concept!
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The NATO Allied Command Transformation Internship Programme
Join us at NATO's home in North America – NATO Allied Command Transformation!
The NATO Allied Command Transformation Internship Programme aims to provide internship possibilities to a small number of current or recent students.
Please, meet Madeleine Goddrie from the Netherlands - an intern on the Command’s Legal team. The internship opportunity allows Madeleine to see day-to-day operations in military and international law and provides a sound basis for her future career development.
If you want to give it a try and experience how #NATO operates in North America, please keep an eye on @NATO_ACT’s social media. We will be announcing the start of the intern selection process for various positions early next year.
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The 17th #NATO Computer Assisted Analysis, Exercise, Experimentation Forum, organized by the Modelling and Simulation Centre of Excellence, starts tomorrow - September 27th - in Rome.
Military users, industry and academia will meet and discuss Modelling & Simulation Discipline, Exercises, Experimentation, Wargaming, Analysis, Standards, Interoperability, and more.
https://www.mscoe.org/event/nato-ca2x2-forum-2022/
Topics of modelling and simulation, exercises on experimentation wargaming, interoperability analysis, and much more will be highlighted in this year’s Computer Assisted Analysis, Exercise, Experimentation (CA2X2) Forum on “NATO’s Digital Transformation, Now and Beyond”. The Forum will be held on 27 – 29th of September in Rome, Italy.
This event is organized annually by the NATO Modelling and Simulation Centre of Excellence, gathering military, industry and academia experts to discuss, analyse and plan on selected issues. Registration for the event is still open; for more information visit: https://www.mscoe.org/event/nato-ca2x2-forum-2022/
The Fall edition of the #NATO Innovation Challenge, through a fictitious scenario related to current global events, calls for creative tools and strategies for securing and managing data in a contested environment. A contested atmosphere may include one or more antagonistic forces seeking to disrupt Allied data usage and flows. In past reconstruction efforts in the Balkans and Iraq, data management was a relevant concern. Although hypothetical, this scenario is playing out in the real world and is likely to become increasingly relevant to the Alliance.
https://www.act.nato.int/articles/innovation-challenge-fall-2022
NATO - Allied Command Transformation (ACT) Innovation Hub in partnership with the #NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA) and the Romanian Ministry of Defense are hosting the NATO Innovation Challenge - Fall 2022 in Romania. The Challenge will develop creative solutions to challenges of data management and security in the context of reconstruction efforts.
https://www.act.nato.int/articles/innovation-challenge-fall-2022
The #NATO Training & Technology Conference, #nttc2022 concluded last Friday with speeches on Gamification, Metaverse and Training Enhancement. Over three days, the conference highlighted the importance of new training & education technologies for the success of future Multi Domain Operations.
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At #CWIX, we are conducting over 5500 test cases, across 10 time zones. Such an operation needs secure systems on which to conduct these tests. The NATO Joint Force Training Centre in Bydgoszcz, Poland, has provided reliable and secure networks on which CWIX can operate. Dziękuję! #StrongerTogether
Today, June 19, 2021, marks HQ SACT’s 18th anniversary! Allied Command Transformation was commissioned on June 19, 2003. It has acted as #NATO's Warfare Development Command ever since and is a symbol of transatlantic unity #StrongerTogether #WeAreNATO💪
📌 “Interoperability is the glue that makes us fight like an Alliance”
Brigadier General Poul Primdahl, speaking at the centre of #CWIX at the NATO Joint Force Training Centre, explains how interoperability is the cornerstone of #NATO operations, allowing our Nations and Partners to operate together effectively and efficiently #StrongerTogether 💪
Final remarks from LCDR Ian Kemp, TIDE Hackathon Coordinator
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BGEN Poul Primdahl stresses the importance of #TIDESprint and interoperability
LTC Christian “Woody” Specht as he highlights the importance of fully implemented and agile interoperability for NATO
LCDR Ian Kemp, NATO ACT’s TIDE Hackathon Coordinator, explains the importance of this challenge for NATO’s future