Faciliating Open Innovation within NATO for over 20 years
We accelerate NATO’s digital transformation through innovation. We make the Alliance more adaptable through changes in processes and mindsets
Since 2012, NATO’s ACT Innovation Branch has driven the Alliance’s digital transformation, ensuring technological and intellectual superiority. By adopting a data-centric, modular, and agile approach, we enable Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) and maintain interoperability across all domains. Our diverse team of civilian and military experts innovates continuously to enhance situational awareness and facilitate data-driven decision-making that aid in creating future capabilities.
Leveraging a diverse team of product owners, UI/UX designers, managers, full-stack developers, military personnel, and civilians is key to our success, ensuring high-quality work and continuous improvement through regular assessment and validation of each increment. Our products evolve constantly, driven by insights and updates to meet ever-changing needs.
Advantages of MVP
Creating an MVP allows you to test your product concept in a real-world setting, reducing risk before committing extensive resources. It provides crucial validation of your assumptions about user behavior, enabling informed business decisions. This process transforms the project into a valuable learning opportunity that informs and enhances your long-term strategy.
Here To Serve
The Innovation Hub serves forward-thinking leaders who envision more efficient and open ideas. We support those who desire to initiate significant change and need a starting point to quickly validate their ideas, motivating further development. Our hub provides solutions for leaders facing problematic workflows, processess, and assists those looking to close the gap of ever evolving digital technologies.
Funding
Our projects are provided free of charge thanks to the support of the NATO Common Fund. This fund is governed by robust mechanisms, with NATO Allies collectively determining eligibility and annual expenditure. They also collaborate on medium-term resource planning. As recipients of general NATO funding, we ensure our services are at no cost to our NATO clients. Additionally, all completed projects and solutions are made available for free to all NATO entities for their use.