{"id":21947,"date":"2021-04-14T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2021\/04\/14\/cloudy-vision-can-natos-new-deployable-combat-system-focus-the-field\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T22:24:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:24:02","slug":"cloudy-vision-can-natos-new-deployable-combat-system-focus-the-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/battlefield-tech\/2021\/04\/14\/cloudy-vision-can-natos-new-deployable-combat-system-focus-the-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloudy vision: Can NATO\u2019s new deployable combat system focus the field?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">STUTTGART, Germany \u2014 NATO is on a time crunch to develop new cloud technologies to help set interoperability standards for its members\u2019 own nascent computing infrastructures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of NATO\u2019s core duties has long been to establish technology standards and ensure interoperability across its member nations. Traditionally, that manifested in areas such as radio frequencies or data protocols. But with recent advances in cloud computing and storage in the private sector, the alliance also needs to move quickly to ensure standardization in that technological domain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NATO members France, German and the United States began fielding their own strategies and directives for using artificial intelligence. Cloud technologies will enable AI systems, and achieving results in cloud platforms \u201ccan help accelerate AI development and use,\u201d said Erica Pepe, a senior coordinator for research and a conflict, security and development analyst at the International Institute for Security Studies in London, England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMember nations are developing their own artificial intelligence strategies, and NATO plays an important role in establishing interoperability standards. In this context, showing results quickly is important for NATO to give a common direction,\u201d Pepe said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The field is already becoming ever cloudier, with countries setting up their own cloud-enabled technology hubs and joint-European programs developing separate combat-driven systems, such as the Franco-German-Spanish Future Combat Air System program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Observers say these systems will need to be interoperable if they are to provide a full range of capabilities, and they see NATO as the natural lead to develop common standards across its members\u2019 individual efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NATO is well aware of its need to embrace cloud technologies and move ahead on tangible efforts \u2014 defense leaders were heralding its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/air\/2015\/05\/23\/for-nato-a-cloudy-future\/\">importance for in-theater operations<\/a> back in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since then, the alliance has invested in multiple cloud-enabled technologies \u2014 much of which remained in research and testing phases \u2014 and has begun developing policies and strategies to define NATO\u2019s stake in this technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe already have a cloud-first strategy in NATO. Now we need to live it and adopt it,\u201d NATO Communications and Information Agency General Manager Kevin Scheid said at the alliance\u2019s June 2020 virtual discussion on cloud computing, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monch.com\/mpg\/news\/ew-c4i-channel\/7097-nci-agency-hosts-virtual-discussion-on-cloud-computing-for-nato-leaders.html\">M\u00f6nch Publishing Group<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s time to adopt and stop admiring the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One program under the microscope is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncia.nato.int\/resources\/site1\/general\/business\/firefly_factsheet_2021_final.pdf\">NATO\u2019s Firefly effort<\/a> to field NCI Agency\u2019s first theater-level, deployable defense cloud capability. The system will enable troops working under the NATO flag to receive, analyze and transmit data in real time among static headquarters and across operational theaters. It will build upon and complement the alliance\u2019s deployable communication and information systems, and provide a suite of command-and-control services in fewer, lighter hardware boxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">French company Thales was selected in late 2020 to develop the Firefly system, and the team is expected to complete the design phase as well as perform factory testing this year, with production to begin in 2022 and finish in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The contract includes 42 million euros ($49 million) for up to eight expected systems, but no funds will be allocated until the completion of the preliminary design review, per the alliance\u2019s NCI Agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The goal of Firefly is to bring \u201cnew modern technologies\u201d to \u201cthe edge of our networks, in hostile environments,\u201d said Antonio Calderon, acting chief technology officer at the agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thales is performing the majority of the work in-house, but will use \u201cbest-of-breed solutions\u201d from the commercial sector for features such as cloud storage and firewalls, said Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Connan, the company\u2019s sales director for institutions, network infrastructure and group strategic alliances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While NATO may have recognized the benefit of such a system years ago, the cloud technology itself had to mature enough to make a system like Firefly a reality \u2014 and to convince government customers that cloud solutions are indeed viable. That confluence only happened over the past two or so years, Connan noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCloud providers have been offering solutions that today are satisfying more of the criteria of the customer: scalability, sustainability, security and, of course, price,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Time is of the essence to field this system before the technology becomes obsolete and requirements must be reset. Connan noted that the COVID-19 pandemic impacted Firefly\u2019s schedule for contract negotiations. \u201cWe had to reconsider and reevaluate, [and] the technical solutions had to be refreshed to be up to date.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is crucial for NATO to have a cloud-based system in the near term to ensure operators have secure and rapid access to information, Pepe noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is important to show that the technological edge is still kept within the alliance,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Firefly\u2019s all-in-one system architecture, which includes application management, IT networks and security, represents a \u201cholistic\u201d approach to NATO\u2019s deployable C2 assets, said Lauren Speranza, director of  trans-Atlantic Defense and Security at the Center for European Policy Analysis in Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Firefly program is \u201cexactly the type of approach NATO should be moving toward \u2014 away from having different platforms and [toward] building an overarching system-of-systems approach that we hear so much about,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But as member nations and other stakeholders develop separate cloud solutions, the key for NATO is ensuring these systems can communicate and interface among themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEven though NATO has adopted [a system] that should work across all of the nations, if there are other capabilities out there at use in the national context, we still have limited interoperability,\u201d Speranza said. \u201cSo that, I think, is going to be the challenge going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NATO will need to develop more rigid guidelines and standards for cloud solutions as well as ensure those guidelines resolve the inevitable disagreements related to intellectual property sharing and data sharing between member nations, she noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs we get into more dual-use technologies, like the cloud, there\u2019s going to be a whole bunch of regulatory and governance issues [related to] how we actually gather and store and share the data that\u2019s needed to power these software systems,\u201d Speranza said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Thales\u2019 Connan, interoperability and open standards are part and parcel with working on NATO programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen you work with NATO, in terms of IP [intellectual property], it has to be very open and it has to be as standard as possible,\u201d he said. \u201cFor me and for my company, the point is to make sure this solution will be the cornerstone of the coalition. 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