ENHANCING NATO’s OPERATIONAL HELICOPTER CAPABILITIES

This project aims to enhance and optimize international standardisation in the field of helicopters in order to increase the international operational capabilities of NATO helicopters.

ENHANCING NATO JPR Capability, Education and Training

The Report and Lesson Identified during the recent Operational Activities Highlighted some of the shortfalls present in the NATO organization related with the implementation of and efficient and effective PR System. The general ambition of this project is to facilitate and enhance interoperability and thus effectiveness and efficiency of PR System addressing some of the shortfalls in NATO JPR Policy and Doctrine, focusing on Education ana Training (E&T) at the Component Level

Enhancing NATO's Space Capabilities

“Knowledge and understanding” are the foundational enablers to gain a correct and robust Space Awareness. NATO is lacking space structures, space expertise and it is still far from approaching an educational roadmap which will provide guidelines to Allied nations in order to generate and qualify space personnel. Space products are becoming more and more crucial for our operations, but our war fighters (and not only them) lack the knowledge and expertise to exploit these products.

Every time we acquire a new aircraft/system we start a new educational & training program and this process should be applied to space too: it would be impossible to “fight without knowing how to use your weapons or equipment”.

If  NATO wants to enhance its capabilities in this field, we should immediately start building and improving our International and National SpET programmes and define new military roles, structures and requirements.

Analysing the NATO environment, exploring, evaluating and outlining common factors among all Allies' initial space capabilities and/or programs, focusing on Space Education & Training (SpET), the project will  provide a“Blueprint” with an educational program and recommendations in order to identify essential priority actions which will guide NATO and Allied Nations in creating new space structures and SpET facilities. 

Schriever Whitepaper

NATO recognizes the growing dependency on Space and the importance of this environment for the Alliance. The Schriever Wargame series belonging to the Commander, US Air Force Space Command (USAFSPC) and is executed bi-annually by the USAFSPC Space Innovation and Development Center (SIDC).  This year, the Schriever Wargame was open to NATO and Australian participation for the first time. The JAPCC Space SMEs worked extensively with the Schriever team to the successful conclusion of Schriever Wargame 12 International. As a summarising result and common grounds within a project the JAPCC will deliver a Whitepaper. The intent of this document is to influence NATO through the collection and dissemination of the various perspectives, findings and conclusions gleaned from the numerous participants and organisations. The Whitepaper will briefly cover planning and preparation of the Schriever Wargame 12 International but focuses, primarily, on execution and the various invaluable findings.  A summary will tie this document together and outline what the way ahead should look like.

NATO Joint Force Protection Capability Development.Weaknesses in NATO FP capability continue to be identified in both the operational and exercise environments.During the ‘Cold War’ it was the Air Component that developed the concept of FP because, whilst other components could use ‘Manoeuvre’ as their primary means of self-protection, the Air Component was predominantly ‘fixed’ to operating from large static locations known to the enemy. 

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OPTIMIZING NATO'S AIR SURVEILLANCE CAPABILITY
The project will assist AC Ramstein in their preparation to assume responsibility as the sole Air Component Command for NATO.  It will provide a single source of visualization of existing radar coverage, allowing the impact of scheduled and unscheduled outages to be assessed both statistically and geographically. This project will also help inform Capability Requirements Review 2016 as air surveillance was barely addressed in the last round of the NATO Defence Planning Process. Furthermore the review of sensor placement will support the ‘Smart Defence’ initiative and may result in options for cost saving within the Alliance.

ENHANCING NATO AAR INTEROPERABILITY
This enduring project aims to enhance and optimize levels of interoperability in the field of AAR in order to support the requirements of the strategic commands (ACT and ACO) and the operational (Joint Force Commanders) level.
The JAPCC AAR Co-ordination Cell isthe only permanent focal point for Alliance AAR issues.