Achieving Decision Superiority at NATO Headquarters

Abstract

In January 2005, NATO conducted its Crisis Management Exercise (CMX) to practice both existing and evolving crisis management concepts, procedures and arrangements. The CMX Experiment (CMX05), which paralleled the exercise, focused on improving Alliance Decision Superiority at the Political/Military level. To achieve this goal, Allied Command Transformation (ACT) conducted three independent and distinct experiments: 1) Crisis Situational Awareness, 2) Effects Based Operations at the Political Strategic Level and 3) Cooperation with Non-NATO International Actors. While it was recognized that all three experiments were important for further developing Alliance Decision Superiority, the main level of effort for the Experimentation Team was focused on Crisis Situational Awareness. For that experiment, ACT created a conceptual Crisis Management Fusion Centre (CMFC) for NATO HQ that was designed to improve situational awareness through the use of collaborative tools to develop a common NATO Strategic Picture (NSP).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA463313

Entities

People

  • Orrick White

Organizations

  • Department of National Defence

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Cognition
  • Command And Control
  • Computers
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Crisis Management
  • Geography
  • Governments
  • International Organizations
  • Knowledge Management
  • Lessons Learned
  • National Security
  • Nongovernmental Organizations
  • Operations Research
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Situational Awareness

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