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in everyday life we could not

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communicate or understand one another

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without a common language . The same

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applies to equipment and systems . We

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have to make sure they can work

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together . This is what we mean by

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interoperability . The best way to

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explain it is to look at your cell

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phone . If every single company that

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was out there had their own special

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cell phone meeting their own standards ,

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you could only call people that belong

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to the same company that you belong to .

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So we're looking at putting standards

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out there so that everybody , every

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nation , Army , Navy Air Force can

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actually exchange information with each

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other and in a NATO operation it is the

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28 member states and their partners who

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may have to work together each one

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using different national standards and

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formats . So equipment must be

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harmonized . That allows better

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information sharing and cooperation .

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Interoperability is not just improving

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exchanges between systems . It's also

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rationalizing them . If a french drunk

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can carry out a mission for the benefit

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of all the coalition members , it is

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not worth the others also sending out

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drones or even other sensors to get the

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information

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for each

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operation , care must be taken that all

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equipment is interoperable . So nations

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developed different ways of testing

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conformity in exercises to be better

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prepared for coalition operations .

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Think since 2000 and nine the alliance

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has had a new test capability . The D .

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N . B . L . A . Virtual platform on

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which the nations are interconnected

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and can exchange data such as imagery

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all managed from the hague by a NATO

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agency . The N . C . Three A . In the D .

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N . B . L . World . We can actually set

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up a test with an individual or one or

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two nations relatively quickly . They

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don't have to transport people or

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equipment up to the Hague to do the

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testing . They stay at their home

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facility . They connect over the

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internet . We can actually do testing

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in a week . It might take two or three

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weeks if they had to transport things

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up here , do the testing and then go

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back home with this kind of mechanisms .

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We will overall safe time

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and effort and in addition to that

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the knowledge gained in the individual

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test events contributes then to

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improve the quality of the NATO systems ,

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the National Systems and the mature

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Ization of the NATO standards which

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will have an impact on time and cost

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too .

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Yeah , this is a manual from France .

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Did you receive my video stream ? Yes

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we are receiving a video stream from

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France . It's a good signal . So then

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if you could do the analysis of the

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compliancy , I'll check for compliance

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Now . Interoperability is pretty good .

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From the Hague laboratory . The NATO

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experts check whether the data sent

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conformed to alliance standards . Other

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nations must be able to read them and

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use them . Among other things . They

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analyzed the image compression format .

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Nine nations formed part of the D . N .

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B . L . Community launched in 2000 and

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nine France was one of the first to

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join the project In 2010 . It carried

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out various tests including the imagery

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of those half and drones used for the

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operation in Afghanistan . The drones

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gather strategic information on the

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theatre of operations .

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Have fun transmits through a ground

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station via radio link using

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appropriate terry french format , not

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known to the community . When the

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transmission arrives at the ground

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station modifications are made there to

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ensure its interoperable with NATO ,

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which will allow us to convert this

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french standard to a native standard

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used by all in this

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operation , D NBL allows us to verify

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the chain from end to end to see if the

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conversion from a french standard to a

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NATO standard is compatible and indeed

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interoperable with the core of the

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system provided by NATO . It allows

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us in advance of deployment to test the

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chain of systems as if it was deployed

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and verify that it works in its

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entirety without bringing an

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operational risk . Other nations should

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join this virtual platform 20

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industrial groups are also involved and

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can use this platform to verify the

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interoperability of their systems . The

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fields of application are varied for

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example , cyber defense or simulation

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and modeling By 2015

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DNB hopes to extend to more than 200

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members from among the nations and

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industry . This is a NATO channel

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report