In this paper, the development and status of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Western Balkans is examined. NATO’s regional expansion can be considered a part general NATO to East. Unhindered eastward progress lasted until 2006, when Russia came back on Balkan scene with strategic South Stream pipeline project. The unexpected appearance new actor led an intensification membership pro...

NATO Undersea Research Centre (SACLANTCEN), the research establishment of the Allied Command Transformation (ACT) strongly relies on Network Centric technologies and capabilities to improve the effectiveness of its scientific research. This requires architectures for the interconnection and data sharing that are flexible, scalable, and built on open standards, to ensure transparent interoperabi...

PACS numbers 05.45.Yv, 03.40.Gc, 11.10.Ef, 68.10.-m, AMS Subject Classification 58F07, 70H99, 76B15 Research partially supported by NSF grant DMS 9626672 and NATO grant CRG 950897. Research supported in part by US DOE CCPP and BES programs and NATO grant CRG 950897 Research supported by INTAS grant 97-10771 and, in part, by the Center for Applied Mathematics, University of Notre Dame Research s...

According to the analysis presented in the article, the main threat to Finnish security is no more a conflict between the great powers, into which Finland would be drawn, but rather geopolitical spillover from a crisis in Russian-Baltic relations. Weighing the pros and cons of Finnish (and Swedish) Nato-membership in this context, the author concludes that Finland’s and Sweden’s Nato-membership...

This paper describes the evaluation, test and selection of STANAG 4591, the future NATO Narrow Band Voice Coder (NBVC). STANAG 4591 will enable high performance interoperable secure speech communications in harsh acoustic and channel error environments at rates of 1.2kbps and 2.4kbps. The low data rate requirements of this voice coder allow it to operate on channels with low throughput, such as...

The United Kingdom (UK) Prime Minister Theresa May’s official request, on March 29th, to leave the European Union (EU) will change the way European countries organise their defence policies. Europeans have always managed their defence via various channels: nationally, in the EU, through NATO and in smaller formats. Brexit will change the way these formats function and how they interact. The eff...

Architecture frameworks have become a popular means to cope with the complexity of today’s enterprises. They support the specification of architectures by providing a method for designing and describing them. An architecture framework typically defines a common terminology, a set of views focusing on particular aspects of the architecture, a set of architecture types with varying levels of deta...

Problem statement: The Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) Systems provided situational awareness about operational environment and supported in decision making and directed to operative environment. These systems had been used by various agencies like defense, police, investigation, road, rail, airports, oil and gas related department. However, the increase use o...