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London , United Kingdom A two day

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meeting of more than 350 people from

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industry , the military government and

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universities . Industry days held by

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Act NATO's allied command

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transformation . High level meeting

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vital in the face of economic austerity

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I think for most of us it is the worst

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economic crisis we have ever faced . Um

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and it is having an impact on

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everything we do across

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NATO defense budgets are falling . The

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cost of critical capabilities is rising

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and security threats are more complex

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and less predictable and that's

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actually a dangerous combination . So

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we have to change something now .

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Um We cannot ask the allies to spend

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more . I am we have to ask them

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to spend better and that's what I call

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smart defense . So dialogue with

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industry is launched , NATO's Allied

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Command transformation looks to the

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medium and long term in its work with

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companies . It tries to foresee future

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alliance needs in terms of military

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equipment and also training

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framework . For two years ago we

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launched the FC . Initiative framework

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for collaborative interaction with

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industries to work on capability

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development as act is not a procurement

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agency . Our dialogue is very open , of

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course , fully transparent and between

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totally equal partners . A fruitful

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exchange on the

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future

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Act looks at what industry proposes ,

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the technological developments , it

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incorporates them in military

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requirements . Just to mention the last

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year outcome we had 35 engagements with

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industry is quite a number and they

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drove several practical projects that

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were implemented especially in the

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fields of cloud computing ,

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distributing natural battle abs and

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modeling simulation in the IT sector .

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There is good cooperation between

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industry and act a typical current

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program , cloud computing . The experts

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believe it will increase

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interoperability and reduce costs . The

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notion that uh you take away the

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hardware and the equipment that you're

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used to seeing on your desk or in your

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server rooms at at a location and you

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uh you move that away somewhere else .

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You don't worry about maintaining them

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and uh operating them all you're

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worried about is the information that

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you want to use and to store . Uh and

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that can be done somewhere else ,

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analyzes and proposes but NATO signs

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the contracts with industry so the

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nations do have the last word in this

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collaboration to be effective

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collaboration should be between nations .

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A good example of successful

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multinational cooperation . The Awacs

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airborne warning and control aircraft .

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Perfect to submit her , pretty sure

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several of us working together in

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general and doing so effectively in a

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framework which NATO can facilitate

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with experience and expertise that is

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key . Today there was also an excellent

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debate this morning on the

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complimentary approach between NATO and

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the european union where we see we've

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got past the stage where there was

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competition or duplication . We now

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complement each other and if we could

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rapidly reach synergy that would be

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marvelous .

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So reducing costs and ensuring the

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security of the alliance is possible .

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The key is smart defense and industry

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is warmly invited to play a part in it .

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This is a NATO channel report .