Discussion on future NATO Concept Development and Experimentation activities

The annual NATO Allied Command Transformation (ACT) Concept Development and Experimentation (CD&E) Working Group (WG) took place over the period 11-13 March 2014 in Virginia Beach, VA, USA.

The WG is the forum for discussion on future NATO CD&E activities, for technical validation of the 2015 CD&E proposals and also an opportunity to present National/CoEs CD&E-related topics or activities with the opportunity to collaborate with ACT by comparing CD&E Programmes of Work and where possible, integrate national and ACT CD&E activities to generate discussion on possible future CD&E activities that could be of benefit to the Alliance and lay out the future programme of Concept Development & Experimentation (Concepts describe changes to the way NATO forces conduct operations; Experimentation examines and validates those ideas in a structured way to provide measured results to support investment and changes).

Lt Col Luca DOTTARELLI, Head of ENSECCOE Doctrine and Concept Development Division together with Mrs Rasa PAZARAUSKIENE participated in the ACT CD&E WG, providing the Working Group with a comprehensive understanding of the importance of the energy security topic to NATO and the Nations, with further bilateral consultations with ACT regarding future co-operation in development of experiment “Energy Management in the Expeditionary Environment” and development of energy security related concepts.

 LTC Luca Dottarelli presented NATO Energy Security Centre of Excellence and its activities. The necessity of energy security definition and other related definition within NATO was highlighted during the presentation.

Rasa Pazarauskiene presented NATO Smart Energy Team (SENT) and its work towards recommendations to NATO how to steer smart energy into NDPP and Smart Defence.  Presentation was followed by mutual exchange of ideas how to use CD&E tools for further implementation of SENT recommendations.