Developing Coalition Interoperability
Abstract
The need to increase capability by improving effectiveness of existing and future assets is a consequence of many factors including the nature of our adversaries, politics and a tightening budget. While budgetary pressures are fueling the rate of national changes suggesting a transformation, political influences are helping to drive coalition transformation. This paper assumes coalition operations are the desired situation. While this is the case, it pulls at the root of a nation's need to be independent and maintain a level of secrecy in doctrine and tactics. NITEworks is a UK government and industry collaboration addressing the very complex, multi stakeholder environment that raises and seeks solutions to these and similar issues. Principally, NITEworks is a consortium comprising 9 partner companies and 31 associates who's aim is to develop and execute experiments in order to demonstrate force structure and interoperability issues by studying operational concepts, doctrine and tactics. This paper briefly reviews the current NITEworks' themes and studies a recently completed project in more detail known as the Multi National Experiment 3. This project offered a good learning opportunity and environment to exchange ideas related to Effects Based Planning (EBP) in a multinational and multi-agency environment. It is noted that while opportunities exist for improving the experimental design, these vignettes offer excellent insights for all stakeholders.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 2004
- Accession Number
- ADA466808
Entities
People
- Marcus Krackowizer