THIS EVENT IS LIMITED TO USG

NATO defines interoperability as “The ability to act together coherently, effectively and efficiently to achieve Allied objectives”. It is the foundation of all NATO operations and a cornerstone of the Alliance.

The ‘Think-Tank for Information Decision and Execution’ (TIDE) Sprint is a bi-annual event that drives capability development to advance federated interoperability between NATO and Partner Nations’ Command & Control capabilities and IT services.

As a critical event in Allied Command Transformation’s Interoperability Continuum, which also includes the TIDE Hackathon and the Coalition Warrior Interoperability Exercise (CWIX), TIDE Sprint is a week of collaboration, ideation, and innovation to generate ideas, develop concepts and specifications and support programs of work.

Each TIDE Sprint event provides a range of functional ‘tracks,’ led by experienced Subject Matter Experts and supported by a NATO community of interest.

Operators, engineers, scientists and technicians from nations’ governments, military, academia and industry come together to advance in one week what would otherwise take many months to achieve. The outcomes and recommendations from TIDE Sprint events shape NATO capability development efforts and programmes of work.

TIDE Sprint events are open to NATO, partner nations and Non-NATO entities (NNEs). They take place in an unclassified environment and all sessions are conducted in English. Additional information on event administration, registration, past presentations and reports is available on the password protected TIDEPEDIA website.

For access to Tidepedia, please email tide@act.nato.int, and include your first and last name, email address and the government or military organisation you represent. Industry and academia are encouraged to participate but require sponsorship from NATO, or from a national government or military representative.

Spring 2022 TIDE Sprint

The Spring 2022 edition of TIDE Sprint is set for 4-8 April 2022 in Sopot, Poland. Following the COVID pandemic and the disruption of the past two years, we now face a new crisis on NATO’s Eastern Border that, more than ever, requires an Alliance that is responsive, resilient, and ready to confront all security challenges of today and tomorrow. At TIDE Sprint, we look toward the future to ensure that as we develop command and control capabilities they remain interoperable and able to exchange the right information at the right time to the right commanders and decision makers. By aligning our communities of interest at TIDE Sprint, we maintain our ability to operate within the Alliance and with a network of partners, and ultimately strengthen the Alliance.

No matter what your interest, if you are an operator, scientist or engineer with ideas to share, systems to demonstrate, or experience to contribute – we have a track for you. At this TIDE Sprint we are very excited to introduce a Science and Technology Track track, led by NATO’s Science and Technology Organization (STO) in partnership with ACT’s own Innovation Branch. The S&T Track will explore a range of technologies from Quantum, to Artificial Intelligence all the way out to Space systems. Participants will explore how NATO can exploit these technologies in a way that supports the Alliance and maintains our technological edge.

Other highlights include the Operational Command and Control (OC2) track, which will look at Multi Domain Operations (MDO) and the impact of the Space Domain and the Cyber Domain on how we should be conducting joint warfare in increasingly complex environments, and how NATO must develop its future capabilities to be interoperable in MDO. As always, a core theme of our work is interoperability and Federated Mission Networking (FMN) in particular. FMN allows us to be interoperable before the start of a mission, so that our forces can connect and act as one from the very first day of a NATO operation. If you need to know more about FMN and the steps you need to take to make your capabilities ‘FMN-ready’, this TIDE Sprint is for you.
The list of Spring 2022 TIDE Sprint tracks is below. Detailed agendas are in the final stages of development, so if you have something to contribute to a particular track, please contact the track lead:

• Communications
• Cyberspace
• Data Centric Security (DCS)
• Data Science & Artificial Intelligence
• Enterprise Architecture
• Federated Mission Networking (FMN)
• Federated Service Management and Control
• Maritime Services
• Medical
• Operational Command and Control
• Science & Technology