NATO Communications and Information Agency
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The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) is an organization subordinate to NATO as a communications and information agency with headquarters in Brussels (Belgium) and parts of the Cyber Defense Center in Mons and The Hague (Netherlands).
history
The NCI agency was founded on July 1, 2012 as part of a reform as the successor to the merger of the previous NATO Consultation, Command and Control Agency (NC3A), the NATO ACCS Management Agency (NACMA), the NATO Communications and Information Systems Services Agency (NCSA) , the office for the Active Layered Theater Ballistic Missile Defense (ALTBMD) program and parts of the Information Communications and Technology Management (ICTM) staff at NATO headquarters.
On July 26, 2016 and most recently on March 27, 2017, the NCI Agency announced a NATO investment program for new acquisitions and modernization projects for networked data systems and services and for the area of air and missile defense with industry in around 40 contracts by 2019 with a total value of around three billion euros. To this end, the 6th NITEC (NCI Agency Industry Conference) conference took place in April 2017 together with the US Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) in Ottawa . At the end of May 2017, Bechtle AG , among others, was awarded a framework contract to cover the needs of NATO's IT components worth around 45 million euros.
On May 23, 2017, the construction of the NCI Academy was officially announced in Oeiras , Portugal . Its aim is to offer civilian and military NATO employees specialist training in the alliance's advanced IT and cyber systems. The academy will not be fully operational until 2019. The Allied Joint Force Command Lisbon was located in Oeiras until 2012 . The NCI Academy will also take over the tasks of the NATO CIS School Latina, which will then be closed.
task
The NCI agency bundles forces from NATO and the member states involved and is responsible for cyber security and NATO’s C⁴ISR (Command, Control, Communications and Computer, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) including cyber and missile defense. The agency maintains around 32 locations in Europe for this purpose. In Germany there are so-called NCI Agency CIS Support Units in Bad Bergzabern , Euskirchen , in the Combined Air Operations Center in Uedem and on the US Ramstein Air Base .
guide
The NCI Agency is managed by the General Director. From July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2017, this was Major General Koen Gijsbers (Netherlands). From July 1, 2017, the American Kevin J. Scheid will take over. The Chief of Staff (OF7) and Chief Operating Officer of the NCI Agency has been the German Rear Admiral Thomas Daum since 2016 . His predecessor was the Spanish Major General Luis Emilio Andrey Medina.
Other directors include:
- Director Service Operations: Gregory B. Edwards, United States
- Director Acquisition: Peter Scaruppe, Germany
- Director Air and Missile Defense Command and Control (AMDC2): Michael Stoltz, Germany (formerly Air Force Officer 1985 to 1997)
- Financial Controller: Anne-Marie M. Pick, United States
- Director Service Strategy: Murray Davidson, UK
- Director Demand Management: Ludwig Decamps, Belgium
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Individual evidence
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