Our Projects

Our comprehensive suite of ongoing and completed projects created by the Innovation Hub.

JEDI: NATO Enterprise Data Infrastrcture Tool

With JEDI, JTAC currencies and qualifications tracking can be standardized across all nations. This will improve communication within individual nations and within NATO. JEDI offers a reliable way to access and store data, eliminating the manual work associated with calculating a JTAC’s qualification.

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  • Client: NATO AIRCOM
  • Status: On production in use by nations
  • User Group: Joint Terminal Attack Controllers (JTAC) and all supervisors

OCAT: Observation, Collection and Analysis Tool

The Observation, Collection, and Analysis Tool, or “OCAT,” allows Staff Officers to easily record observations in the field or during a planned exercise within open and/or restricted networks. It is deployed locally and designed to be used in any environment.

Digital tools are accessible in any network environment that can be deployed offline and online.

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  • Client: Joint Analysis and Lessons Learned Centre (JALLC)
  • Status: On production
  • User Group: NATO Community

AI CLAIRE: AI Content Learning Alerts and Insights Review

The AI Content Learning Alerts and Insights Review (AI CLAIRE) is a searchable database of unclassified information on a wide range of subjects that scans a variety of vetted sources for content.

Unlike searching the World Wide Web, AI CLAIRE distills relevant information for users in a manner that is easy to scan and alerts users when new information becomes available about a topic they have expressed interest in.

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  • Client: NATO Standardization Office (NSO)
  • Status: MVP in testing
  • User Group: NATO business users

NI2CE Messenger

NI2CE is a freeware, cross-platform, centralized instant messaging and voice-over-IP service owned by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). It allows NATO business users access to send text, voice messages, and video messages, make voice and video calls, and share images, documents, user locations, and other content.

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  • Client: NATO Community
  • Status: On production in use by nations
  • User Group: NATO business users

ADV: Allied Digital Vault

This is a community and Asset Library for NATO and Alliance engineers, designers, and marketers. It is intended to reduce redundant asset creation by sharing within the community.

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  • Client: NATO HQ SACT
  • Status: Prototype
  • User Group: Looking for users

File Exchange

File transfer cloud service, built as a spin-off from the Allied Digital Vault product, provides NATO employees with a common, safe, and reliable platform that can also be used during TDY.

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  • Client: Innovation Hub
  • Status: On production
  • User Group: NATO ACT community

WhiSPR: White Shipping Picture Recognition

NATO’s Allied Maritime Command (MARCOM) is responsible for live exercises that occur in and near busy shipping lanes. WhiSPR will support the safe execution of MARCOM exercises & operations by providing the shared awareness needed to enable NATO Shipping Centre (NSC) personnel and augmentees to safely guide merchant and civilian ships around the exercise & operations areas.

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  • Client: NATO MARCOM
  • Status: In development
  • User Group: NATO Shipping Centre (NSC)

NMAD: NATO Maritime Availability Database

The NATO Maritime Availability Database system for Allied Maritime Command (MARCOM) is a cloud-based web application designed to enable MARCOM Staff Officers to determine, visualize, and report the future location of the Standing NATO Maritime Forces based on received messages/reports and their planned involvement in Blue exercises and operations. It will allow the gathering and filtering of information regarding various naval units’ activities.

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  • Client: NATO MARCOM
  • Status: In development
  • User Group: MARCOM Staff Officers and Operations Divison

NOCMB: NATO Operations Collection Management Bridge

NATO Operations Collection Management Bridge (NOCMB) is a platform for efficient intellection collection management, providing an opportunity to address Intelligence CM challenges innovatively, incorporating lessons from recent work with the CM community, and developing new features to connect tasks and products.

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  • Client: SHAPE Mons (BE), JFC Brunssum (NL), JFC Naples (Italy), JFC Norfolk (USA-VA), AIRCOM Ramstein, MARCOM Northwood (UK), LANDCOM Izmir
  • Status: On production
  • User Group: CM Staff Members

TACOMA: Tactical Coordination of Movements in the Alliance

Tactical Coordination of Movements in the Alliance (TACOMA) TACOMA is a web application that replaces the legacy tools used by NMI for the coordination of movements. It centralizes and improves the process by implementing the complete chain of movement planning, from request to plan generation. By optimizing the resources and simplifying the coordination, TACOMA maximizes the opportunities for NMI advisors to meet with their local interlocutors.

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  • Client: NATO Mission Iraq (NMI)
  • Status: In NCIA approval process
  • User Group: NATO Community in similar mission

RoCK: Repository of Capabilities Knowledge

RoCK is a cloud-based web application solution designed to enable users to collect, manage, and analyze military capabilities data based on the NATO Nations’ Order of Battle (ORBAT).

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  • Client: NATO LANDCOM
  • Status: Development completed
  • User Group: LANDCOM, AIRCOM, MARCOM, Space, Cyber Defence and Speical Forces, SHAPE, and Logisitic Staff Officers

CASA: Collect-Analyse-Share Application

CASA is a cloud-based web application implemented to transform how NATO handles cooperative data. It acts as a centralized platform for data related to projects and events, facilitating efficient management, analysis, reporting and sharing among relevant stakeholders.

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  • Client: NATO ACT
  • Status: On production
  • User Group: NATO ACT Community

Project Mercury: NATO

Project Mercury is an open innovation education program that is targeted at innovation practitioners. It provides the framework, techniques and academic foundation to bring open innovation into our mindset.

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  • Client: NATO ACT
  • Status: In preparation
  • User Group: NATO & Allies

iHELP: Intelligent Holistic Emergency Logistics Platform

Responding quickly with the right resources can reduce a potentail mass casualty event to a more manageable crisis. ACT developed a iHELP, a web-based software system that allows dozens of nations coordinate supplies, transport, and materiel so that Allies remain always prepared.

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  • Client: NATO ACT
  • Status: Completed
  • User Group: NATO Entities

JIGSAW

One of the challenges presented by Allied Air Command was Tanker planning. The methodologies employed to service airborne refuelling requirements during operations were personnel intensive and required hours of planning. JIGSAW and was designed by the United States Department of Defence.

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  • Client: NATO AIRCOM
  • Status: Completed
  • User Group: NATO Entities

Resilience: Data Analytics MVP

A data-science based tool, to improve civil environment and resilience awareness related to the seven baseline requirements of resilience for NATO JFC Brunssum.

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  • Client: NATO ACT
  • Status: Completed
  • User Group: NATO Data Science Community

TEXAS: The Tasking, Exploitation, Assessmen System

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.

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  • Client: NATO AIRCOM
  • Status: Completed
  • User Group: NATO ACT

AWARE: Automated Web Analyzer, Raker, and Exploiter

AWARE improves operational environment understanding and decision making by aggregating, enriching, and visualising data collected from open sources, facilitated by data science methods including machine learning, natural language processing and advanced analytics.

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  • Client: NATO ACT
  • Status: On production in use by nations
  • User Group: NATO Entities

CySAS: Cyberspace Situational Awareness System

Threats in cyberspace are becoming more frequent, sophisticated, and destructive, with consequences that extend far beyond the virtual.

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  • Client: NATO Strategic Commands
  • Status: On production in use by nations
  • User Group: NATO DevSecOps

MMp: Medical Management Prototype

Joint project between the Innovation and Medical Branches of ACT. Established in 2019 ACT with the support of the user community and collaboration with NCIA.

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  • Client: NATO ACT
  • Status: Prototype
  • User Group: Medical Branches of ACT

Cognitive Warfare

Cognitive warfare is the weaponization of public opinion​ by an​ external entity​, for the purpose of influencing public and/or governmental policy or​ for the purpose of destabilizing
governmental actions and/or institutions.

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  • Client: NATO HQ SACT
  • Status: In production by nations
  • User Group: NATO Community

Critical Thinking Online Course

Due to the importance of efficiently dealing with information for military personnel, NATO has developed a Critical Thinking training course to increase this ability in an intervention-based manner. In this experimental study, we examine the effect of the Critical Thinking course to determine whether one’s Critical Thinking ability can be increased in general and whether NATO’s course is an effective intervention.

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  • Client: NATO ACT
  • Status: In production by nations
  • User Group: NATO Community

NeNA: NATO e-Learning Network Application

In order to safeguard the freedom and security of its members, the Alliance must maintain the capabilities to prevent, detect, deter and defend against any threat of aggression. For this reason, NATO conducts education and training programmes to increase cohesion, effectiveness and readiness of its multinational forces.

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  • Client: NATO ACT
  • Status: In use by nations
  • User Group: NATO Community

WIN 22: Wargaming Initiative NATO 2022

Audacious Wargaming leverages an Alliance-wide capability to enable NATO’s competitive edge today and into the future through creation, discovery, and exploitation of opportunities in a fail-safe environment, and establishment of analytical rigor informing all levels of decision-making.

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  • Client: NATO ACT
  • Status: In use by nations
  • User Group: NATO Strategic Commands