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Strategy
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Cognitive Warfare
The New Third Operational Dimension, besides the cyber and the physical ones. How should NATO adjust to it and face the challenges that come with it?
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Operation 2040
In the midst of a proliferating ability to innovate, seismic demographic changes, and increasingly complex security challenges, we know the world of 2040 will be vastly different. NATO needs your help to understand what this means for its operations in the future. By sharing your thoughts and insights, you can help NATO leaders gain a fresh, outside perspective and shape the 29 nations’ capability development.
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Crypto Currencies for NATO
Cryptocurrencies impact on society is increasing. Cryptocurrencies are being a cornerstone of tomorrow’s digital economy, it is therefore crucial to understand the opportunities they may offer, along with the risks they may carry.
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Stability Policing
NATO missions address complex problems in fragile States during and post-crisis and contribute to a comprehensive approach to Crisis Management and to coherence and coordination of the International Community’s efforts towards security, development, and governance.
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Strategic Foresight 2015
Our world is evolving fast into a very complex and uncertain environment where everyone has a role to play in ensuring stability, peace and security. It will take a very large number of experts and smart people to understand the challenges ahead of us and identify potential solutions.
Autonomous Systems
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TRUST and AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS
This project seeks to identify ways to improve decision-maker and operator trust when deploying autonomous systems, and de-risk their adoption.
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AI for Security
How should NATO leverage AI to detect Threats
to its populations, its troops, and its nations?
to its populations, its troops, and its nations?
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Policy and Operational Implications
The study explores and analyses operational and policy issues in order to provide senior policy makers with guidance on future implications of increasing autonomisation in defence capability.
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Countermeasures
Understanding the various aspects (operational, autonomy related, legal, legitimacy, financial and ethical) of the proliferation of Unmanned & Autonomous systems in ground, air, sea and Telecoms dimensions. The aim is to identify the best options to co unter Unmanned & Autonomous systems and to provide senior policy makers with guidance on related future implications and requirements.
Information-Disinformation
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Social Media for NATO
Our world is evolving rapidly. Modern communication technologies using the Internet are emphasizing and bolstering social changes all over the planet. These changes, both in societies and the cyber domain, have a significant impact on NATO. This is why the Alliance needs an improved understanding of all aspects of social media, potential risks as well as opportunities.
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Counter Disinformation
How to counter disinformation leveraging the latest innovative technology solutions.
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Cognitive Warfare
The New Third Operational Dimension, besides the cyber and the physical ones.
How should NATO adjust to it and face the challenges that come with it?
How should NATO adjust to it and face the challenges that come with it?
Human Initiatives
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Digital Triage Assistant
Wearable device that can relay a soldier's vitals to combat medics, making it easier to determine who needs medical attention most urgently
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Extended Hand
Extended Hand provides a range of tools for non-kinetic, cultural and situational competency training for military and other personnel.
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Human Environment
NATO’s missions include preventing and resolving crises arising among complex human environments and beyond NATO nations territory. A key to success in this task is the ability to understand and efficiently interact with the Human Environment.
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Gender Focus
How to train on integrating gender perspectives in military operations.
Cyber
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Cyber Psychology
With the advent of smart and autonomous machines, it has become primordial to develop a new form of psychology, one that will examine the way humans and machines impact on each other.
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Cyberspace Awareness
How should NATO Operate in Cyberspace? Join experts from Academia, Industry, Government, Military and the Crowd and help NATO define the strategy, capabilities, partnerships, tools and techniques to efficiently understand and operate within Cyberspace.
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AI for Security
How should NATO leverage AI to detect Threats
to its populations, its troops, and its nations?
to its populations, its troops, and its nations?
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CYSAT
The ongoing development of the Cyber Situational Awarness System (CySAS) MVP connects the NATO Strategic Commands, NATO organizations and industry experts in this rapidly advancing field.
Decision Making
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Wargaming
Wargaming Initiative for NATO offers every military the opportunity to join an open wargaming community where to practice wargaming. It is also supporting the development of wargaming in military organization.
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Critical Thinking Course
Critical Thinking is the ability to develop objective understanding of a situation. It is a skill that contributes to each human’s survivability. It is a critical skill when important decisions have to be made. NATO Innovation Hub wants to help everyone improve their critical thinking, NATO staff, and the public.
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COGNITION !
Cognition is the foundation of human behavior. It is the center of gravity; and it is a target under permanent assaults.
Join this open project, share insights, learn from each other, and develop new solutions to improve COGNITION
Join this open project, share insights, learn from each other, and develop new solutions to improve COGNITION
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iHelp - Logistic Supply Management
Resources of any type contributed by diverse stakeholders have to be optimized in order to meet the operational requirements. iHelp is the tool that integrates and optimizes all support requests and all available resources into the best operational support plan.
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TEXAS - Intelligence Management
The Tasking, Exploitation, Assessment System (TEXAS), is a planning
tool that assigns and manages allied intelligence gathering. Commanders
can now task assets and get information quickly to make critical
decisions on the battlefield.
tool that assigns and manages allied intelligence gathering. Commanders
can now task assets and get information quickly to make critical
decisions on the battlefield.
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Space Domain Awareness
The space around our planet hosts a large amount of assets that ensure stable and comfortable human life on Earth. Thorough understanding and efficient management of these assets and other space objects is key to maintain stability and security on Earth.
The NATO Innovation Challenge is seeking innovative solutions to
IMPROVE THE SPACE DOMAIN AWARENESS
The NATO Innovation Challenge is seeking innovative solutions to
IMPROVE THE SPACE DOMAIN AWARENESS
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JIGSAW
Allied Command Transformation innovators travelled to NATO Allied Air Command in October 2019 and gathered user problems in a Dragon’s Den format. One of the challenges presented by Allied Air Command was Tanker planning.
Education and Training
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NATO Virtual Academy
Anyone can learn live from NATO experts anytime anywhere.
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Future Online Learning
Environment Development Campaign To increase interoperability and efficiency through learning at reasonable cost, NATO needs to implement a modern Online Learning Environment. VISION The Future NATO Online Learning Environment will Allow any expert
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Gender Based Violence Training
The purpose of this course is to train soldiers and officers to be able to detect signs of potential, impending or ongoing sexual violence and to increase efficacy in response by reporting accurately. If we know what tactics our opponent is using, we can improve our responses and take preventative actions.
SOFTWARE
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JEDI
A digital tool to track, access and store JTAC qualification requirements.
JEDI optimizes tracking of JTACs for the leadership in real time.
JEDI Assists JTACs in capturing and tracking currencies and qualification.
JEDI optimizes tracking of JTACs for the leadership in real time.
JEDI Assists JTACs in capturing and tracking currencies and qualification.
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LIME 711
Light and Interoperable naval Mine counter measure tool for data Exchange and exploitation in accordance with NATO standards AHP 7 and APP 11.
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AWARE
ACT Innovation developed Automated Web Analyzer, Raker, and Exploiter (AWARE), to improve situational awareness for Allied decision-makers. Originally designed for the NATO intelligence community, it has the potential to be used for multiple other applications by other NATO entities and national organisations.
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OCAT
OCAT is a functional prototype and a scalable solution. It can be succesfully used for collecting observations in any network environment and supports data analysis, eliminating the manual transfer of observations into the NATO LL Portal.
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RESILIENCE
IMPROVED UNDERSTANDING OF THE CIVIL ENVIRONMENT AND NATIONAL RESILIENCE. A data-science based tool, to improve civil environment and resilience awareness related to the seven baseline requirements of resilience.
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NICE Messenger
The NATO Interoperable Instant Communication Environment (NI2CE) is developing a secure messaging application for NATO and military personnel allowing instant sharing of media, voice, text, location … a military grade WhatsApp.
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NOCMB
NATO Operations Collection Management Bridge supports the intelligence collection management process, increasing efficacy and efficiency through enhanced collaboration.