Today many NATO nations use national risk analysis methodologies (for example EBIOS for France, CRAMM for UK, ITSG-04 for Canada, MAGERIT for Spain). These methodologies, even if based on similar principles, use different threat and vulnerabilities classification. The increase of interoperability between national and NATO systems requires building up a common risk analysis methodology. A Canadi...

NATO MSG-085 was chartered to "Investigate approaches for the deployment of Coalition BML capabilities complementing existing operational C2 system exchange mechanisms." A recognized capability needed to achieve this is a functional NATO Operations Order (OPORD) for the Battle Management Language (BML). GMU has developed a schema for a NATO OPORD, based on our earlier work with an Army OPORD fo...

The effective and sustainable environmental performance of a business is a result of various factors and most important the integrated outcome of the environmental management. Likewise, the integration of environmental protection into the armed forces functions has also gain interest for the military sector internationally. Therefore, the environmental management system (EMS) is recognized as o...

The successful operation of NATO missions requires the effective and secure sharing of information among coalition partners and external organizations, while avoiding the disclosure of sensitive information to unauthorized users. To resolve the conflict between confidentiality and availability in a dynamic coalition and network environment while being able to dynamically respond to changes in p...

one of the main issues faced by the north atlantic treaty organization (nato) in the post-cold war period has been the continued existence of the organization and accommodating its goals and agenda with the new world conditions. nato in this relation has made utmost efforts within the past two decades and by making a kind of identity transformation in its functions and missions, not only did no...

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NATO has identified Web services standards as a key enabler for interoperability between the different military systems of the various NATO nations. Interoperability is required on several levels: Network hardware compatibility (NATO has workgroups that are addressing this), network protocol compatibility (IP has been chosen by NATO), middleware compatibility, and so on. In this paper, we addre...