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AFCEA Europe – June 2010 “Interoperability Revisited” “NATO Industrial Advisory Group (NIAG) and its Role in Interoperability”. The NIAG - “Supporting Alliance Capability Development and Enhancing Interoperability”. Frans Picavet. What is the NIAG ?.
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AFCEA Europe – June 2010 “Interoperability Revisited” “NATO Industrial Advisory Group (NIAG) and its Role in Interoperability” The NIAG - “Supporting Alliance Capability Development and Enhancing Interoperability” Frans Picavet
What is the NIAG ? • A high-level consultative and advisory body of senior industrialists of NATO member countries, acting under the NATO Conference of National Armaments Directors, with the aims of: • providing a forum for the exchange of views on industrial, technical, economic, management and other relevant aspects of research, development and production of armaments equipments within the Alliance; • providing industry’s advice on how to foster government-to-industry and industry-to-industry armaments co-operation within the Alliance; • providing assistance in exploring opportunities for international collaboration.
What NIAG offers “High level consultancy advice” - • Trans-Atlantic Defence Industrial Cooperation • The contribution of Industry to Capability Development in NATO • Government-Industry Partnerships – Industrial support beyond traditional boundaries • The Industrial Contribution to Achieving Interoperability Technology advice - • Pre-feasibility studies of TECHNOLOGIES • Technology Solutions for INTEROPERABILITY • Questions addressed by studies: • What do future technologies offer ? • What is the current state-of-the art ? • What is practical, achievable, cost effective ? • How can we make systems interoperable ?
NIAG Technical Studies Contributions to NATO Interoperability C3 and ISR • Software Defined Radio – achieving interoperability. • Data Links • Alternative Tactical Data Links. • UAV Data links for high intensity operations. • ISR • NATO ISR Interoperability architecture. • Use of digital video broadcast for ISR data links. • Networks • NEC infrastructures for dissemination of ISR data to field commanders. • New technologies for network based still imagery access and exchange services.
NIAG Technical Studies Contributions to NATO Interoperability Land Systems • Soldier Systems - communications interoperability • Urban warfare: – Surveillance & Reconnaissance Data Fusion - Monitoring and Tracking for Situation Awareness in Urban Areas • Ground Based Air Defence Systems - integration and interoperability • Artillery: • Reducing collatoral damage from artillery projectiles • Replacing cluster ammunition for area offence • Military Vehicles - auxiliary power systems requirements
NIAG Technical Studies Contributions to NATO Interoperability Air Systems • Precision Airdrop Systems - integration in operations. • NATO Universal Armaments Interface – weapons to weapons carriers – Aircraft and UAV. • Interchangeability • Aircraft and UAV self protection systems – flares and chaff rockets. • Precision Approach and Landing – the future NATO standard. • Protecting against Directed Energy.
NIAG Technical Studies Contributions to NATO Interoperability Maritime Systems • Maritime Air Operations: - Working with Automatic Identification Systems’ - Interoperability and deployment of Maritime Patrol Aircraft. • Future Naval Fire Support; • “Smart” projectiles, • Interchangable155 calibre shells • Ship Design: • An architecture standrd for virtual ship design, • Potential for interoperable Modular Mission Packages
The NIAG Perspective • Interoperability in the NATO context stretches over a broad canvass. • Achieving interoperability requires many contributors, including defence industries. • Basic principles: • Generate interface solutions for integration of systems nations’ currently own This also allows Industry to offer short term solutions without excessive constraints • Think commercial and open standards/ architectures where possible
The Industrial Challenge • Choosing the Business Model. • For Industry, proprietary solutions, at first sight, offer more contract control …and money. But – • Business comes from meeting the customer needs, and • Less costly solutions based on commercial and/or open standards which offer interoperability can have competitive advantage.
The Intentions …. • For the Alliance: • Enhanced Military Capability and Interoperability as a result of Industrial interaction. • For Defence Industries: • Industrial interaction in providing Military Capability and Interoperability.