Sweden and NATO launch Battle Labs cooperation 

12:36 GMT, April 15, 2010 Brussels and The Hague | On 26th March the NATO C3 Agency (NC3A) received a task order from the Swedish Agency for Defense Material (FMV) under the NATO-Sweden C4I Memorandum of Understanding to better integrate of FMV’s Battle Laboratory into the Alliance’s federated Battle Laboratories framework.


Testing friendly force tracking, ISR

During the first phase of the cooperation the Agency’s Battle Laboratory Services Team (BLST) will familiarize FMV with the Distributed Networked Battle Labs framework and develop options for Friendly Force Tracking and ISR testing in cooperation with NC3A’s experts in Interoperability, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance.

The Distributed Networked Battle Laboratory framework was jointly developed by NATO’s Allied Command Transformation, NC3A and NATO Industry in 2009. The framework provides the legal umbrella, the organizational concept and the administrative and technical processes to arrange and offer services for testing and experimentation.

“Our stated aim is to deliver capabilities that are ‘born interoperable’, allowing troop contributing Nations to plug and play in key areas such as friendly force tracking or intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance,” said NC3A General Manager Georges D’hollander.

The options elaborated in the current ‘familiarization’ phase will be implemented later this year. 
 

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