Welcome
Norway's participation in CWID 2005 will focus on support to the war fighter within a Network Centric Warfare (NCW) concept. We support Norway's ability to provide credible, highly interoperable forces and capabilities. Alliance Enlargement broadens Trans-Atlantic security to new members in Central and Eastern Europe, and concomitantly, invests NATO into a broader area of security interests and concerns. As such, the Alliance will continue to require forces and capabilities able to mount major operations in defence of Alliance territory and member nations, while also performing Crisis Response operations. Multinational interdependence to accomplish these missions will increase, as will the demands upon contributing nations to develop joint and combined capabilities. All our demos in CWID 2005 has this as an overarching framework.
Background
The NORCCIS II connects, in a common network, all relevant decision makers, military and civilian, home or abroad, that might have a role in National or Alliance security policy and or Crisis Management issues. Typical users at the strategic level would be the Department of Defense, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Office of the Prime minister, in addition to relevant Agencies, Directorates and strategically important embassies. At this level the NORCCIS II primarily supports the user requirements to communicate fast and secure, be it Alliance Secret or National Secret information, while keeping the two apart. In addition the NORCCIS II makes available, to all users on the network, a vast amount of classified and unclassified, national and or Alliance information; either it is WEB based or databases, thus utilizing a Push Pull concept of information flow.
The military user community, however, represent the largest user group. The NORCCIS II is, from its outset, primarily designed for the military users, at al levels. Typical users are the General Staff level, the Joint, Regional, and Component Headquarters in addition to many tactical users, be it Navy combatants, Air Squadrons, Army tactical components, Purpose Forces and others, home and abroad.
NORCCIS II represents breakthroughs in many areas. It is flexible, scaleable and cutting edge. The Norwegian Defense is committed to continuously develop the NORCCIS II system into the network centric warfare future.
During the last tree years, NORCCIS II has also been used at the tactical level onboard the Norwegian Task Group (NoTG afloat), the Coastal Rangers and various army units. It was also deployed with our national SOF contribution in Afghanistan.
The NDLO/CIS NORCCIS II Team develops, integrates, fields and supports the NORCCIS II system on behalf of CHOD Norway.
Norwegian C4IS architectural framework
The figure below depicts our national architectural framework. The core services is provided by our platform called NORDIS-S. As of today, most of our functional services are compound of joint and service specific services. In our continuous work to improve support to the operational community new services will be made available.
Fig 1. Norwegian C4I - Architectural framework
We will pursue interoperability with as many other systems and demonstrations as possible, NATO and national systems.
To eable Norwegian forces participating in a colation environment a secure and reliable cross domain data transer service will be demonstrated.
Why do we participate in CWID?
- Best opportunity to verify Allied and coalition interoperability:
- NC3 standards
- Interoperability Models - ”how to do it technically”
- Procedures - ”how to do it operationally”
- Tests and trials of new and leading edge functionality Near ”real” situation including secure infrastructure without being in the battle field
- Room for trials and errors over an optimal execution period
- Feedback
- Establish how well participating systems comply to standards
- Gain in-depth knowledge of other nations’ capabilities
- Ideas and inspiration for further development of own systems
- Catalyst for close cooperation between nations
- i.e. planning and preparing specific, integrated demonstrations for CWID
- Promotion of national solutions
- e.g. IP-crypto, Map System, MIP DEM, MMHS, Border Directory Services, etc.