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News Last year Nato's Operation Urgent Quest exercise tested the potential of a number of combat identity systems under battlefield conditions. Children: Japanese authorities decided to start chipping schoolchildren in one primary school in Osaka a... [30 Nov 2006]
Can SMEs compete for government contracts?
News Reflex Magnetics is a small IT security company that has just won a contract with Nato, and has been working with the DTI, the MoD and the RAF for years. The government is aiming to give smaller companies a better shot at bidding for public sector... [29 Jun 2006]
Leader: Military tech trial has lessons for the private sector
Leader As deployments of multinational forces become the standard way of dealing with conflict, Nato has realised it is vital that forces from different member countries can communicate and recognise friend from foe. [20 Oct 2005]
Photos: Technology fights 'friendly fire'
Photo Nato forces have been testing a range of combat identification technologies on Salisbury Plain. This M1 Abrams tank forms part of the US forces used in the Nato "Urgent Quest" exercise. Above, a Challenger 2 tank used in the trial. [20 Oct 2005]
Army tests RFID to beat 'friendly fire'
News Earlier this month Nato's Operation Urgent Quest exercise (see pictures here) tested the potential of a number of combat identity systems under battlefield conditions on Salisbury Plain, with 800 troops, 94 combat vehicles and nine aircraft... [20 Oct 2005]
Tactical Data Link 22: NATO Improved Link 11 - NILE
White Paper Seven participating NATO nations contracted through the U.S. Northrop Grumman Information Technology (IT) developed the Link 22 data link as a data communications link among air, surface, subsurface, and ground-based tactical units using radio... [01 Sep 2005]
TEMPEST and Zone Systems
White Paper TEMPEST and Zone products are commercial products designed and modified to meet rigorous United States Government and NATO (AMSG) specifications for minimizing electromagnetic emissions, thereby providing protection from unauthorized access to... [01 Sep 2005]
Moneybookers chooses The Bunker for data security
News To improve security, the company moved its resilience hardware to The Bunker, an electromagnetic pulse-proof data centre based in a former-RAF and NATO building. Electronic payments service Moneybookers has bolstered its security by moving back-up... [05 Aug 2005]
BT CEO: "Cannibalise yourself"
News Of these, Verwaayen singled out deals with the European Central Bank and NATO as showing its IP-centric approach also means cast-iron security. Fresh from BT celebrating its five millionth wholesale broadband customer, CEO Ben Verwaayen has spoken... [05 Apr 2005]
The Counter Terror Coalitions: Cooperation With Europe, Nato, and the European Union
White Paper The long-term success of the counter terror campaign will depend on concerted cooperation from European states, but a key question is the extent to which that cooperation should be pursued through European multilateral institutions. [15 Feb 2005]
NATO Decisionmaking: Au Revoir to the Consensus Rule?
White Paper Since its creation in 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has developed a tradition of making decisions by consensus. This requirement for general agreement among all members on positions or actions taken in the name of NATO has... [20 Jan 2005]
Partnership for Peace: Charting a Course for a New Era
White Paper By the Istanbul Summit in June 2004, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will have enlarged to 26 countries, with 10 of the original 24 Partnership for Peace (PFP) partners having achieved full Alliance membership. [20 Jan 2005]
Clearswift seals NATO deal
News UK content security company Clearswift has won a major military contract to provide messaging gateways for the NATO Messaging System (NMS). The deal, which could run for five-and-a-half years, dependent upon a successful roll-out of the first phase... [10 Jan 2005]
Pax NATO: The Opportunities of Enlargement
White Paper This monograph, examines NATO's extraordinary performance and incisive initiatives during the immediate post-Cold War years. Considering its long string of successes, it is curious that NATO has so many critics chanting the mantra of irrelevancy or... [28 Dec 2004]
Tweaking NATO: The Case for Integrated Multinational Divisions
White Paper This paper, examines NATO's enduring deficiencies and their detrimental effect on military capabilities. NATO's European members hoped otherwise and paid insufficient attention to military capabilities. [28 Dec 2004]
