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NATO NETWORK ENABLED CAPABILITY (NNEC)

Conference 23 to 25 April 2013


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Table of Contents

Executive Summary ................................................................................................................... 4

Aims of the conference .............................................................................................................. 4

Summary of presentations.......................................................................................................... 5

Conference Agenda .................................................................................................................. 10

Conclusions .............................................................................................................................. 12

Attendance ................................................................................................................... 13

Annex A: Conference Facts ..................................................................................................... 15

Annex B: Conference Feedback .............................................................................................. 18

Annex C: Conference Agenda ................................................................................................. 19

Monday 22 April .......................................................................................................... 19

Tuesday 23 April – Day One ....................................................................................... 19

Wednesday Morning 24 April – Day Two ................................................................. 20

BREAKOUT SESSIONS ................................................................................ 20

Breakout Session 1: Information Assurance & Cyber Defence...................... 20

Breakout Session 2: Better use of Technology ............................................... 21

Breakout Session 3: Social Media / Human Factors ....................................... 21

Breakout Session 4: Education & Training .................................................... 22

Thursday 25 April – Day Three ................................................................................... 22


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Executive Summary The 10th annual NNEC Conference “coNNECting Forces” took place 23 to 25 April 2013 in

Lisbon, Portugal. The event pointed out how the continued development and implementation

of NNEC supports the Connected Forces Initiative (CFI) and how those synergies can be

applied to the Future Mission Networks (FMN) Implementation Planning.

The conference officially opened with a series of keynotes, started by the Portuguese Chief of

Defence, General Luis E. Esteves de Araujo, and a welcome speech, via Video, by SACT,

General Jean Paul Palomeros. DSACT, General Bieniek, emphasized the key leverage of

NNEC for CFI. Additionally, MGen Leinhos, as Director NATO HQC3 Staff and standing

in for ASG/DI, MGen Peter C. Bayer as ACT DCOS Strategic Plans & Policy, Major Gen

Thomas Franz ACT DCOS CIS & Cyberdefence and Mr. Michael T. Jones, CTA Google,

highlighted the CFI conference theme, and provided the audience with a unique insight from

different perspectives. The keynotes were completed by MGen de Zeeuw, ACT ACOS C2DS

and MGen (Retired) Koen Gijsbers, GM NCIA, leading to more detailed presentations on

Tuesday afternoon by representatives from the EDA, NCOIC, NCIA and summarized by

LtGen (ret) Jo Godderj, NCMI groep.

Wednesday morning started with a briefing from Google reflecting social media and further

briefs touching topics that were discussed in the afternoon conference breakout sessions:

Information Assurance & Cyber defence

Better use of technology

Social Media / Human Factors

Education and training

Thursday, the last day of the conference, was highlighted with a keynote by Air Commodore

Peter Round of the European Defence Agency (EDA), Academia and Germany on the

importance of “share to win.” These were followed by briefings on maritime activities in

information sharing.

The conference concluded with a summary of the key messages by MGen de Zeeuw.

Aims of the conference

As espoused by many of the NNEC leadership, NNEC is about people first, then policy

doctrine, processes and technology. The presentations and keynotes made it evident that the

technology is only an enabler to share more relevant information for better decision-making

and serves as the conduit to communicate intent and instructions. The interdependencies of

NNEC and CFI in the operational environment were evident and emphasized through many

practical examples.

The conference promoted the necessity to share information and to clearly convey the

operator’s requirements to NATO bodies, NATO and non-NATO Nations, international

organisations, governmental and non-governmental organisations as well as to industry to

enable an environment of information sharing. Additionally, it informed the broader NNEC


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Community of Interest on continuing developmental efforts and implementation progress of

NNEC, particularly in support of the Future Mission Network (FMN).

Finally, the Conference developed a common understanding and clear alignment between

FMN and NNEC. Both rely on technology and emphasize the importance of communicating

with people as a critical success factor. Thus, the conference was designed to provide a

forum to facilitate engagement and dialogue between different people of different nations

with different cultural and professional background. Ultimately this serves the purpose of

sharing the same understanding and building trust. To this end, the Conference provided the

stage to present, demonstrate and discuss NATO’s, nations’ and industries’ developments in

the field of NNEC and the benefits of improved information sharing.

Summary of presentations

1. All presentations are available on :

http://www.act.nato.int/subpages/nnec-archive

2. Introduction and Keynotes. The 2013 NNEC Conference, under the overarching

theme of “coNNECting Forces” was focused on the Secretary General’s Connected

Forces Initiative (CFI) and how it links with NNEC against a background of austerity.

A series of keynote speakers, representing major NATO HQs, nations and industry

shared their view upon this theme. As a common denominator it can be stated that

security threats are increasing these days, whilst resources are becoming more

stretched and public support is wavering. Nationally stovepiped capability

development is not enough. Interoperability is vital. Therefore, the CFI has practically

built on, and fostered NNEC Tenets and Principles. NNEC has transitioned from a

conceptual framework to practical implementation and is deeply embedded and

clearly linked to Smart Defence (SD), AMN and FMN. ACT is moving its focus from

NNEC concept development to requirements specification and implementation in

Capability Packages, their projects, as well as NNEC Compliance assessments in

support of exercises and training. The CFI, as such, shows a lot of parallels to former

interoperability initiatives (“old wine in new bottles”) since it builds upon previous

examples of SD, but with two differences: budgets are shrinking instead of growing

and interoperability is even more important. SD aims to make NATO more efficient

and to deliver collective capabilities that would be too expensive otherwise. CFI is

extending the planning horizon beyond NDPP.

3. Education and Training. Two major factors affecting NATO in the next few years

will be ensuring ISAF successes in maintaining interoperability in Afghanistan

continue after the drawdown, and maintaining effectiveness despite economic

austerity. The need for more ambitious training and education was agreed by Defence

Ministers in February 2013. Expanded exercises and better use of technology are

essential to preserve and further develop interoperability within the Alliance. ACT

has produced a new Training Concept which calls for Education and Training

expansion, more frequent exercises and documentation refreshment. Keeping a man

in the loop is also critical and risk management is essential to ensure that rapid change

does not outstrip control.

To be a considered a major workstrand in the future collaboration between ACT

DCOS JFT and ACOS C2DS.


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4. On-Line Information and Social Media. NATO needs to analyse benefits and risks in

using modern means of communication, particularly social media. Four billion people

are now connected online using webmail, map, video, phone, email, Twitter,

Facebook and SMS etc. This has led to hive-like behaviour in humans for the first

time in history. Humans are increasingly used as witting or unwitting sensors or

contributors to Big Data pools which can be used to produce maps, 3-D models,

predictions, real-time analysis and measurements, etc. The Arab Spring, unforeseen

by analysts, was founded through the use social media. Senior U.S. Military

Commanders make extensive use of Twitter for broadcast communication. For

operations, conducting first engagement through a social on-line channel may be less

intimidating and more effective than through an encounter with fully-kitted soldier.

Mission activities, such as the presence of Blackhawk helicopters, may be observed

and broadcast on Twitter in real time with obvious risks. There is an urgent need for

NATO to understand Social Media to avoid being out-manoeuvred in its use. The

younger generation is used to socially networking 24 hours per day and working in a

decentralised environment and NATO needs to engage and involve them in planning

for the future. There is a need to identify new ways of thinking and understanding.

Use of social media in network-centric operations is a trending topic that is not yet

sufficiently analysed and addresses in the context of NATO’s operations. Needs to

remain in focus and will be addressed at next year’s conference.

5. ACO CIS Support. Looking at the tactical operating level reveals challenges and

limitations of the war fighter in the CIS area. NATO CIS Group is the largest of the

six commands under SACEUR. The Initial Operational Capability as foreseen for

2013 will be limited to support of one Major Joint Operation (MJO) / NRF plus

current activities. Final Operational Capability as foreseen for 2016 will enable

support of two MJO + sic Small Joint Operations (SJO). Today’s challenges are

operating with limited capabilities until 2016, while facing a busy exercise schedule

introducing new CIS technologies/ NATO Signal Battalion (NSB) structures and

provision of strategic transportation and deployment.

With the recently published Political Guidance, Secretary General clearly emphasizes

the importance of the NRF in the context of NATO’s operational level of ambition.

6. IT Modernisation. The NCIA driven IT Modernization study represents a truly

transformational approach in analysing the enterprise-wide business processes in

support of future IT service requirements. The drawdown in Afghanistan combined

with reduced Defence Spending underpinned the need for the NCI Agency to speed

up adoption of technology whilst reducing costs. The Agency contracted the Network

Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) to undertake an IT Modernisation

Study. Conducted over 140 days over a summer period and with a limited budget, the

aim was to take a holistic view of bringing all of NATO into a single enterprise-wide

Information-Communication and Technology (ICT) structure and build a business

case for such rationalization. Several problems were encountered including difficulty

in monitoring secure systems, lack of data on some applications, security restrictions

on some U.S. participants, personnel non-availability and the absence of a unified

view. There was also a need to avoid either generalist or company-centric solutions.

These were overcome successfully and the final deliverable is now being taken

forward by the NCI Agency.

For information only.


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7. European Defence Agency (EDA). In the spirit of Smart Defence, there is potential

for synergy and effectiveness for NATO through engagement with EU and aligning

the programmes in support of Network Enabled Capabilities. The EDA comprises 110

people in a similar organisation to NATO operating under EU Common Security and

Defence Policy. It operates to Madeleine Albright’s “3D statement” of no

Duplication, no Decoupling and no Discrimination between EU and NATO. Current

EDA Federated Mission Network activities, based on the NATO Architectural

Framework V3, are focused on moving theory into practice. EDA and NATO have

much to offer to each other and financial pressure is encouraging a more pragmatic

approach. Some nations continue to approach the organisations as separate and treat

them differently but the situation is improving, helped by financial pressures. Cyber

Defence is a full project within the EDA and well supported by members. The EU

has a comprehensive Cyber Defence and Security Strategy which addresses resilience,

crime reduction, national policies, developing technologies and a coherent Cyber

Space policy.

Secretary General, in his recently published Political Guidance, stated the need for

closer collaboration between NATO and EU in Capability Development. For

consideration C3B to discuss opportunities in aligning the respective Network-

Enabled-Capability Programmes.

8. NGA Community Cloud Program. Industry can offer a variety of examples that

clearly show the benefits of practical network-enabled applications. One good

example is the Community Cloud Program, developed by the Network Centric

Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) and sponsored by National Geospatial

Administration (NGA). This was aimed at addressing problems, such as in Haiti,

where equipment was delivered without knowing which roads were passable. NCOIC

encouraged delegates to visit to NCOIC website to learn more about the project. The

NCOIC would especially like NATO to review results and comment on the value and

possible wider use of the project.


9. Information Management (IM) & Comprehensive Approach (CA). ACT, in close

collaboration with NCIA, has very recently achieved great success in turning NNEC

principles into practical implementation across multiple programmes. ACT,

supported by the NCIA and C2CoE, has undertaken, based on the NNEC Criteria, an

NNEC Compliance assessment of the NRF-exercise Steadfast Cobalt (SFCT) in 2012

and identified a lack of knowledge management and information exchange with non-

traditional partners. To close this gap, NCIA, funded through ACT’s NNEC PoW,

has developed a solution that ultimately allows connecting an Operational

Headquarters to Non-NATO mission partners by allowing the Mission Secret (MS)

Domain to access the Internet. This connection enables Comprehensive Approach in

operations. As a side-effect this solution significantly improves Information

Management by cataloguing the mission-wide information space and harmonizing the

different information repositories. The solution received security accreditation for the

purpose of the exercise and was positively tested in SFCT 2013. There is obvious

potential for operationalizing this solution in the context of Future Mission Network

(FMN) implementation, Deployable CIS and Information Exchange Gateways (IEG).

NCIA and ACT will build on the recent achievements and continue to develop further

the concept, bring the experiment into a more operational environment (Steadfast


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Jazz) and re-use to the best possible extent in other programmes (FMN, DCIS, IEG-

D).

10. NATO Operational C4ISR Tool Set. The NCI Agency intends to leverage sunk cost

investment by offering tools, products, training and technical support developed by

the Agency for re-use by nations. The proposed lifecycle will be for the Agency to

develop, NATO to use, nations to test and evaluate and for nations to re-use with

lessons identified incorporated. Increasing demand from nations has triggered

formation of a new initiative to formalise these arrangements: the Multinational

Project on NATO Software Tools (MN NST). The Aim is to change the current “use

once and then forget” scenario, in favour of long-term partnerships.


11. Maritime Expeditionary Operations. A renewed focus on maritime is now part of

NATO Strategy which aims at projecting maritime forces at strategic distances.

Striking Force NATO, now standing up an Expeditionary Maritime HQ, will need to

conduct tactical and operational C2. The biggest challenge is JISR. Most of the

capabilities are already available but there is a perceived need to have more organic

ISR assets.


12. Future Mission Network (FMN) Update. Implementation of the FMN Concept is an

expression of turning NNEC principles into reality and therefore a major focus within

the NATO C3 community. The MC has agreed the FMN Concept and has asked for

the Implementation Plan. The Description and Scope of Plan were produced in early

2013. Operational Requirements for FMN have been produced. The NATO FMN

Implementation Plan (NFIP) is targeted for end of 2013 and the next development

workshop is due in June 2013. It was noted that the CFI initiative, begun at the

Chicago Summit in May 2012, fits well with the FMN. The aim is for FMN to be

part of the 1st spiral in support of the NRF 2016. There was a warning comment

made that the project may be taking too long, given the procedural processes needed.

ACT offers to discuss post FMN-Implementation Plan activities to nations and

industry at the 2014 NNEC Conference. For consideration, C3B to provide a

consolidated position on nations’ demands.

13. NATO Maritime Activities Update. Maritime Command and Control and Maritime

Situational Awareness services are another example of future network-enabled

services. NAC approved the Future Maritime Information Service, for which Project

Triton is a core project, in 2012. The Project will be undertaken in three3 spirals and

start-up documents are now with the NCI Agency to prepare a TBCE. A Market

Survey has been conducted and 24 company responses are now under review.

SHAPE has approved the outcome of a Requirements Review and CONOPS are now

being prepared, based on a UK-supplied skeleton.


14. Outcome from Breakout Session on Information Assurance & Cyber Defence. NATO

should consider creating an interoperability profile of industrial standards to facilitate

ad-hoc federated network mash-ups in FMN. SOA can work on disadvantaged

networks and NATO should capture rules during next TIDE Sprint; The NCOIC

cyber security discovery process could be used to capture the NATO “Cyber

Landscape”; CCD CoE studies should be harvested for NATO Cyber Defence Action


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Plan items; and it was noted that a custom Android mobile device with access up to

NR for NLD has successfully been created. A Town Hall meeting discussion in

preparation for upcoming Allied Reach exercise raised a number of points: Might a

cyber-attack require a kinetic response? Will nations share cyber information for a

functional NATO response? There is a need to improve pre-acquisition relationship

with industry (FFCI) and pull through into plans. The use of Tidepedia and TIDE

Sprint was strongly encouraged as a means to take forward this topic.

15. Outcome from Breakout Session on Technology. The session identified a need for

flexibility and agility. There was a perceived hope that technology will “come and

save us” which is not so. However, technology can be a force multiplier if the

change is correctly managed. People are key and training and educating them is vital.

There is a need to reach a situation where solutions are born interoperable and to

institutionalize this new mind-set. Things must be done better and faster within the

fast moving arena. The NATO Interoperability Standards and Profiles (NISP) is an

essential component, but brings with it some challenges such as the use of open

standards versus military standards. There is a need to align 3 pillars of CFI to gain

interoperability. IM is still a big issue with more questions than answers. Modelling

& Simulation use for operations and training can produce significant benefits to

mission analysis, demonstration, planning and training and should be leveraged.

16. Outcome from Breakout Session on Social Media & Human Factors. The session

focused on a connected forces lifestyle. Human behavioural issues are hardest to

solve. Information growth is beyond the cognitive capacity of people and

organizations to process, with result that 80% of time is spent managing information

and only 20% analysing information. There is a need to reverse these figures through

the use of soft skills training to eliminate disconnects and to change attitudes, thinking

and behaviours. Individual effort is key to successful education and fostering

organizational change. There is also a clear need to understand Social Media and Big

Data. Within military organisations particularly, staff turnover can result in “internal

amnesia” and loss of collective knowledge in the organization. Finally the point was

made that NATO’s adversaries are better and quicker at taking and using the best of

breed new technology.

17. Outcome from Breakout Session on Training & Exercises. There was limited

attendance in this session, which was regrettable given the high priority placed upon

this topic by many speakers. Both CFI and CA have major training and education

elements. The Session agreed the need to use technology to support training and that

changing mind-sets is key. There is a need to educate and train young people and to

think "out of the box" on all aspects of NNEC development. CFI is all about training.

CA requires utilization of social elements. The need to know / need to share requires

that classification should "by exception" rather than the norm. There was a need for

better use of DNBL and CFBL for training and to look into and invest more in

Training Technology.

18. German Perspective on Future Coalition Mission Networks. Implementing a truly

federated network requires a mutual understanding of all stakeholders. DEU has

examined various aspects of Future Coalition Networks including the use of a

Standing FMN Capability (off-mission) versus specific mission FMN Capabilities (on

mission). A mission FMN could be linked with a NATO core network or not.

Verification and Validation was essential. A 3-step approach was recommended:

define the NATO LoA; make NATO and National capabilities fit together; and keep


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NATO and National capabilities fitting together when the mission requirement

abated. Several issues need to be addressed by the FMN including deployable small

PoPs with SATCOMS and Secure Intranet Architecture (SINA) with different

security domains on single hardware platform. The FMN Project was asked to define

the framework and portfolio, provide the FMN Core and to define and implement an

FMN Verification and Validation (V&V) process.

ACT, in its lead role, in the development of the FMN Implementation Plan, will

continue to align the FMN development with national positions.

19. Insights from Applied Scientific Research. Effective network-centric operations

require connected people more than connected technology, so harmonized business

and information processes are crucial. TNO, the Netherlands Organisation for Applied

Scientific Research has looked at a number of different projects with differing

requirements. The detail findings varied across the projects, but some common

conclusions could be drawn. Information processes have to support work processes.

There is also a need: to monitor all inputs, both known and unknown; to improve

human interaction processes; and to address technical and organizational challenges

involved in fusion of information and sources. Security Classification can be an

obstacle and it was noted that once applied to a document, such classification is rarely

changed even when no longer relevant. This can limit subsequent sharing.

For consideration by NCIA and ACT in the requirements capture and implementation

planning of future information services projects.

20. CFI - Bolstering the NATO Response Force (NRF). The NRF is a major customer for

network-centric services, impacted by FMN Implementation and considered in the

design of C2 services, hence in the focus of the C3 community. The current

deployment concept comprises four capability blocks: Operational Liaison and

Reconnaissance Team (OLRT) to support planning process; Forward Coordination

Element (FCE) for early in-theatre coordination; Initial Command Element (ICE) to

establish minimum footprint for in-theatre Command and Control; and a Joint Task

Force Headquarters (JTFHQ) to establish full mission-tailored Command and Control

in theatre. A fifth Redeployment Coordination Element (RCE) would address

handover to a follow-on HQ and/or redeployment of the Force and designated HQs at

the end of the mission. Bolstering NRF is part of the Connected Forces Initiative and

four options for achieving this were presented. These would need to be considered

once NATO steady-state achieved in 2015. Rotating JFC between HQs appeared to

offer the best means of achieving the outcomes required but this was not yet certain.

Update on NRF for information only.

Conference Agenda The 2013 Conference agenda was designed to show the strong relationship between NNEC

(as a concept) and CFI (as an initiative), and to help promote efforts across the CoIs to build

upon this.

A shared understanding of both NNEC and the CFI is key to harmonizing the different CFI-

related efforts being conducted throughout NATO and the Nations. The 2013 NNEC

Conference aimed to promote the use of CFI as the vehicular mechanism for realizing the full

potential of NNEC. By using the strong message from the Alliance transformational leaders


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and providing guidance on the details of the approach, the intention was to help move the

audience (comprising influential representatives from NATO, nations, industry and

academia) towards a common understanding and awareness as to how CFI will change

NATO.

The final Agenda is shown at Annex D.


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Conclusions

1. NNEC is an overarching concept addressing both the cognitive domain and the

information-, process- and policy-related aspects of information sharing. It therefore

continues as an essential source of support for technological development. This

Conference demonstrated that NNEC is clearly and necessarily embedded in the

wider context of the CFI (as an initiative) and FMN (as a project). Additionally, the

Conference identified the need for a single information domain with the appropriate

information management and ability to exchange information with non-traditional

partners.

2. NNEC has made the transition from theory into practical implementation. Good

examples presented from amongst the many available included: Future Mission

Network, Deployable CIS and several Community of Interest related services such as

Maritime C2. The vital work of pulling conceptual knowledge though into

implementation projects must continue.

3. The NNEC Conference remains an invaluable venue to discuss current and future

developments and ensure shared NNEC awareness. There was clear consensus on the

need for it to continue, with minor changes and improvements to the current format of

the Conference to be discussed.

4. An ad-hoc on-site evaluation of the discussions during the Conference resulted in ten

trending topics indicating the audience’s focal points of interest for NNEC in the

future:

a. Give more attention to human mind-set and behaviour.

b. Continue to focus on process improvement.

c. Move forward from theory to practical application of results

d. Explore use of Future Mission Network to meet near term operational

milestones.

e. Improve understanding of social networking and its use of local knowledge,

crowd-sourcing and potential to affect operations

f. Pull through the knowledge gained in concept development into

implementation.

g. Use information sharing to preserve and build upon commitment achieved in

recent operations.

h. Explore new thinking and engage beyond conventional organizations and

processes.

i. Facilitate NATO product availability and re-use by Nations


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j. Improve the balance of future planning with the immediate needs of today’s

forces.

5. Other points also identified but in no particular order of priority were:

k. The need for IT Modernization and the need to take advantage of unfiltered

industry advice.

l. The need to recognize and learn from younger generations’ use of technology

m. The need to ensure timely decisions based on knowledge to achieve NATO

mission success.

n. The need to look at next generation capability development in specialized

multinational maritime operational interoperability.

o. The need to build on past NATO experience to take forward the CFI-NNEC

agenda.

6. Details of next year’s conference in terms of date, location and format of the

conference are to be announced in the near future.

Attendance

a. Budget considerations The tight budgets, economic restraints, in particular in the US, restricted the travel

for attendees from NATO Nations and organisations considerably and led to some

reduced participation.

Given these circumstances the overall participation was slightly higher than expected.

b. Topic

The number of participants from industry, NATO and Partner Nations demonstrated a

clear interest in NATO’s effort to promote NNEC. In particular the close connection

of NNEC and CFI was widely agreed. The trend of recent years to put more emphasis

on the human factor and identify people as the focus of collaboration issues

continued.

With many attendees coming from a technical background, the significance of

NATO’s effort to establish policy, direction and guidance to prepare the Organisation

and the member nations for information age capabilities was generally

underestimated. Promoting the importance of the human factor, not only for

technical solutions but also for the policies underpinning these solutions, should be

further pursued. In this context, Cyber Security will be major consideration for any

future NNEC System.

c. Location

Adding to the general budgetary challenges, the location of the conference venue is

clearly a major factor. The high participation from various representatives of Industry

and Nations in spite of such economic constraints clearly demonstrates that a location

in Europe is attractive to the mainly European participants. The participation of these


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groups supports and helps NATO to spread the “Share to Win” message.

d. Number of attendees :

343 attendees

46 speakers

26 of 28 NATO nations represented

8 PfP partner nations represented

125 Industry representatives

3 Representatives from the EDA


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Annex A: Conference Facts

The 10th NNEC Conference was hosted by Allied Command Transformation (ACT) and co-

hosted by the Portuguese Ministry of Defence. The Conference hosted 343 attendees from

NATO, Nations, industry and international organizations, as detailed below.

Attendee information on the 2013 Conference is listed below and depicted in figures 1 - 5.

NOTE : blanks, as well as obvious errors do not appear in the figures.

Total Attendees: 342

Academia 7

COE (Centers of Excellence) 13

EU / EDA 3

Government Organization 13

Industry 114

NATO & NATO Agencies 64

NATO Nation 89

NCOIC 11

Non-NATO Nation 1

PfP (Partnership for Peace) Nation 27

Attendees from Partner Nations: 67

Austria 4

Bosnia and

Herzegovina 1

Finland 7

Ireland 1

Moldova 1

Montenegro 1

Sweden 21

Switzerland 3

Grand Total 39


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Attendees from NATO Nations : 268

(includes NATO bodies, industry and national representatives)

Belgium 10 Latvia 1

Bulgaria 1 Lithuania 1

Canada 5 Luxembourg 1

Croatia 2 Netherlands 20

Czech Republic 2 Norway 9

Denmark 3 Poland 14

Estonia 6 Portugal 34

France 20 Romania 2

France/UK 1 Slovak Republic 3

Germany 28 Spain 5

Greece 1 Turkey 10

Hungary 2 United Kingdom 19

Italy 4 USA 64


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8 Year Comparison:

Despite budget cuts and weakened economies which have led to some decrease in

participation amongst all categories of participants, the numbers continuing to attend show

that overall interest in the NNEC Conference remains satisfactory. The continuing level of

participation from industry clearly indicates that NNEC remains a relevant and highly

regarded topic.

COI 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

Member Nations 175 131 145 129 216 144 129 112

Industry 63 85 90 35 138 158 158 127

NATO Orgs 132 102 124 144 62 72 67 77

Partner Nations 27 24 38 22 31 67 60 27

Total 397 342 397 330 447 441 414 343


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Annex B: Conference Feedback

Conference attendees are annually provided an opportunity to comment on how well

the Conference achieved its aims and how well it met the personal expectations of the

attendee. This year, 229 attendees provided responses to the survey, with highlights provided

below:

Attendees expressed a high degree of

satisfaction for the conference as

measured by the number of responses

Excellent 20.0%

Good 56.0 %

Fair 21.0 %

Deficient 3.0%

The duration of the conference was rated as “just right” by 77.5 % of the

attendees.

Most of the participants appreciated the operational focus and the reminder that

NNEC exists to support those in the field. With that said, Technical participants

requested more technical discussions and Operational participants requested more

operational discussions.

Many participants requested more practical examples of concepts, prototypes and

actual implementations as well as associated lessons learned

3.07%

21.05%

20.18%

55.70%

Overal Evaluation of 2013 conference

Deficient

Fair

Excellent

Good


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Annex C: Conference Agenda

Monday 22 April

10:00–18:00 Registration in Corinthia Hotel Lobby Area

19:00–

20:30

Icebreaker at Portuguese Air Force Mess Hall at Monsanto

Transportation will be provided (casual dress / open shirt)

Tuesday 23 April – Day One

Moderated by Major General Mels de Zeeuw, ACOS C2DS, HQ SACT

07:30–17:00 Registration in Conference Lobby Area

08:15 Administrative Brief and Opening Remarks Major General Mels de Zeeuw and Lieutenant Colonel Michael Buttler, HQ SACT

08:20 Welcome General Luís E. Esteves de ARAÚJO, Chief of Defence, Portugal

08:40 Welcome / Video Message General Jean-Paul Palomeros, Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, HQ SACT

09:00 Welcome / Opening General Mieczyslaw Bieniek, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, HQ SACT

09:20 Keynote Major General Ludwig Leinhos, Director, NATO HQ C3 Staff

09:50 Networking and Coffee Break

10:20 Keynote Major General Peter C. Bayer Jr., DCOS, Strategic Plans & Policy, HQ SACT

10:55 Keynote Major General Thomas Franz, SHAPE DCOS CIS & Cyberdefence, ACO

11:30 Keynote Mr. Michael T. Jones, Chief Technical Advocate, Google

12:00 Lunch Break

13:30 Keynote Major General Mels de Zeeuw, ACOS C2DS, HQ SACT

14:05 Keynote Major General (Ret) Koen Gijsbers, General Manager, NATO Communications & Information Agency (NCIA)

14:40 Networking EU Capability; from theory to reality Mr. Chris Stace, NEC Project Officer, European Defence Agency



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15:40 NCOIC NGA Cloud Concept & Demonstration Major General Eric Vollmecke, Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC)

16:15 Information Assurance approach to enable IM & CA Dr. Hermann Wietgrefe & Mr. Geir Hallingstad, NATO Communications & Information Agency (NCIA)

16:50 Strategic importance of ICT for defence LTGEN (Ret) Jo Godderij, NCIM Groep, The Netherlands

2000-2200 Conference Dinner, Hotel Restaurant (Dress – Business Casual) "By Invitation"

Wednesday Morning 24 April – Day Two

Moderated by MGEN Mels de Zeuuw, ACOS C2DS, HQ SACT

08:15 Administrative Brief Lieutenant Colonel Michael Buttler, HQ SACT

08:20 Social Media Jim Young, Google

08:50 NCOIC Architecture Process Mr. Marc Fiammante, NCOIC / IBM

09:20 NATO Operational C4ISR Tool Set Mr. Xavier Desfougeres, NATO Communications & Information Agency (NCIA)


10:20 C4ISR Challenges of Maritime Expeditionary Operations Commander Jesus Paz, Spanish Navy, STRIKING FORCE NATO

10:50 Future Mission Network (FMN) Captain Jean-Francois Leca, ACT FMN

11:20 Bolstered NATO Response Force (NRF) Col Patrick Grelier, HQ SACT, on behalf of Commander Paul Delhaise, Concept Development Branch, HQ SACT

11:50 Lunch Break

BREAKOUT SESSIONS

Wednesday Afternoon 24 April – Day Two

Breakout Session 1: Information Assurance & Cyber Defence

Moderated by: Mr. Johan Goossens

13:20 Results of the Coalition Network for Secure Information Sharing (CONSIS) project Mr. Peter Sevenich, Fraunhofer FKIE, Germany

13:55 A Cybersecurity Discovery Process – Standards, Policy, & Business Models Mr. Mark Bowler, The Boeing Company / NCOIC


14:55 Cyber Security in NNEC Criteria


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Mr. Daniel Benavente, NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence

15:30 Securing Android for the Military Mr. Kees-Jan Hermans, Fox-IT

16:05 Interactive Session Mr. Johan Goossens, NATO HQ SACT

Breakout Session 2: Better use of Technology

Moderated by COL Patrick Grelier

13:20 Technology Aspects of CFI Mr. Angel San Jose Martin, HQ SACT

13:50 Leveraging Information Superiority through Core Networking in support of CoNNECted Forces Mr. Etienne Boucharlat, Thales Communication & Security

14:15 A Modeling & Simulation Approach (and toolset) to Studying CoNNECting Forces Ms. Janet Barbera, Lockheed Martin


15:10 Interoperability through Standards and Profiles Dr. Alan Skillicorn, C3 Board IP CaT Lead

15:40 Combining Business Process (BPM) & Information & Knowledge Management (IKM) Mr. David Kamien, Mind-Alliance Systems, LLC

16:10 Towards a Network Enabled Combat Management System (CMS) Mr. Süleyman Altuntaş, MilSOFT Software Techologies

Breakout Session 3: Social Media / Human Factors

Moderated by Dr. Nancy Houston

13:20 The Human is the Center of NATO Alphabet Soup - FMN, CFI, E&T, NNEC Dr. Nancy Houston, HQ SACT

13:55 Social Business for the Military: Combatting Internal Amnesia whilst Increasing External Awareness Mr. John Palfreyman, IBM Software Group


15:05 Skills for the 21st Century - Smart Defence, Smarter Education

Prof Dr. Maria Bordas, Hungarian National Public Service University

15:35 Empowering the Humans in the Loop for Smarter Intelligence Decisions Mr. Mitch Free, IBM Software Group

16:05 Making sense of sense making: measuring and modelling collaboration Prof Chris Baber, Head of School of Electronic, Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Birmingham, UK


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Breakout Session 4: Education & Training

Moderated by Mr. Paul Thurkettle

13:20 NATO COE DATs Anticipation of the Connected Forces Initiative Mind-Set COL Janos Tomolya PhD, NATO CoE Defence Against Terrorism, Hungary

13:55 NATO Education & Training – CoNNECting NATO and nations to prepare Forces – using the eNATO approach” Mr. Paul Thurkettle, Joint Forces Training, HQ SACT


14:55 The role of TurAF Battle Management System in Training & Exercises to promote the Implementation of NEC Concept in Turkish Air Force and the Future Vision Major Mustafa Birbas, Turkish Air Force

15:30 Connecting Lessons Learned Colonel Frederic Curtaz, Joint Analysis and Lessons Learned Centre (JALLC)

16:05 Assessment OUP, Ocean Shield, ISAF LTC Grady Walsteijn, Netherlands Air Force, C2 Center of Excellence

Thursday 25 April – Day Three

Moderated by MGEN Mels de Zeeuw, ACOS C2DS, HQ SACT

08:15 Administrative Brief Lieutenant Colonel Michael Buttler, HQ SACT

08:20 EDA Keynote Air Commodore Peter Round, European Defence Agency

08:50 Insights from Applied Scientific Research Dr. Jeroen Wevers, TNO/Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research

09:25 Future Coalition Mission Networks - A German Perspective Colonel (GS) Peter Toenges, MSc, MoD GE FMN


10:25 NATO Maritime Activities Captain Paulo Costa, Operational C2 Branch, HQ SACT

11:00 Connective Tissue – Improving Understanding in the Medical Domain COL R.J. Heatlie, Branch Head, Medical, HQ SACT

11:35 Summary and Closing Remarks MGEN Mels de Zeeuw

12:10 End of Programme

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