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Chapter 1: Concepts and Solutions for Communications and Information Systems
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In addition NCIA can act as a multi-national executive coordination agent
in support of capability development in any area covered under the technical
framework. The support can span from research contributions and correlation to
procedure design and engineering and procurement. In this role, NCIA can also
facilitate the discussion with the C4ISR operational community about the definition
and establishment of maturity levels for the technical elements under investigation
so as to provide prioritization and guidance for implementation.
Finally, NCIA can support the set up and maintenance of a framework for
sharing information about NATO, national and coalition research activities.
VII. How to join
Non-CCEB, NATO mission partners can request guest mission partner status
via one of the CFBLNet core mission partners (CCEB, NATO, USA).
NATO nations currently not active on CFBLNet can join seamlessly.
When accepted as a CFBLNet member, nations can join through:
• Notifying the CFBLNet secretariat
• Establish a national CFBLNet PoP in their nation,
• Link up to the nearest regional CFBLNet NOC
• Subscribe to the shared service multinational CFBLNet project.
CFBLNet strongly recommends re-using national available infrastructure to
extend CFBLNet to national battle labs, exercise and training sites.
VIII. Conclusion
Real world examples have been given of how using the CFBLNet provides
operational benefits and value to nations preparing for coalition operations.
CFBLNet continues to evolve with a customer driven strategy to achieve its vision.
Many nations are already engaged. As it grows with additional mission partners
the value for all will continue to increase. The governance structure, coalition coordination
and security accreditation procedures and processes have a proven track
record. The current mission partners selected CFBLNet as their infrastructure for
multinational C4ISR trial, assessment, testing, exercise and training.
CFBLNet is proving its value for the ISAF coalition and NATO. Investing
in CFBLNet is Smart, less money is spent, invested better, versus maintaining
the legacy infrastructures for RDT&A, Testing, Exercise and Training. Many
partners expanded the CFBLNet model nationally and created additional savings.
Acknowledgment
The CFBLNet infrastructure is the product of many years of effort and investment
by the mission partners, and the Authors would like to extend their thanks