ANKARA - NATO's progress towards information and decision superiority in mission areas --including friendly force tracking, intelligence and surveillance sharing-- would be the focus of a high-level Alliance conference in Antalya, Turkey on April 30th and May 2nd, a statement by NATO said on Monday.
The NATO Network Enabled Capabilities (NNEC) Conference will bring together more than 300 participants, including senior NATO commanders, national representatives, subject experts and industry leaders.
They will discuss the progress that the Alliance is making in 'network-enabled' operations, which link NATO and national systems to give commanders superior information, situational awareness and command and control capabilities.
Key speakers will include: Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, Admiral Luciano Zappata, Deputy Chief of the Turkish General Staff, General Ergin Saygun and NATO Assistant Secretary General for Defence Investment, Peter Flory.
At NATO's recent Bucharest Summit, Heads of State and Government agreed that NATO must continue to "strengthen information superiority through networked capabilities".
The conference will be the first post-Summit opportunity for NATO, national officials, experts and representative of industry to review progress and set priorities for the way ahead.
Network-enabled systems include technologies that will allow NATO nations to better share intelligence and surveillance information, including from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The technologies provide commanders with superior situational awareness in difficult terrain, such as Afghanistan.
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