NATO Innovation Podcast

Jan 11 2024 17 ep. 24 mins 29
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Allied Command Transformation in Norfolk, Virginia, is NATO’s Warfare Development Command and a leading agent of Alliance innovation.

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Layered Resilience: Civil and Military Readiness

Jan 11 2024 25 mins  
This episode features Captain Jack Benfield, Team Lead for concept development at ACT, as well as Tony Icayan, a concept developer and experimenter at HUBZone HQ. Both SMEs are there to discuss the importance of Resilience, both for the military and civil sectors.

Strategic Foresight Analysis: a Product and a Function

Jan 10 2024 27 mins  
This episode features Dr. Gergely Nemeth, Strategic Foresight Analysis Branch Head. This is a conversation where we explore different futures and how this horizon scanning should shape how we prepare for these possible scenarios.

Digital Transformation: A Game Changer

Jan 09 2024 30 mins  
This episode features Jean-Rene Couture, NATO ACT Federated Interoperability Branch Head. This is a conversation that explores how digital transformation is reshaping the 21st century, changing the way we live and work, and leading to a boom in information-based industries and information-based threats.

The Space Domain: Risk or Opportunity

Jan 08 2024 23 mins  
This episode features Colonel Christophe GrandClement, the head of the Space Branch at NATO ACT, Robert Kroeger, Space Integrator, and Dr. Orzuri Rique who is in Space Research and Development. This is a conversation about how Space figures into NATO's collective defense efforts, and what risks and opportunities this new operational domain brings.

Multi-Domain Operations: The NATO Perspective

Dec 22 2022 19 mins  
Today, NATO’s focus is not only towards threats emanating from the Maritime, Land and Air domains, but also on defending the Alliance across the Space and Cyberspace domains. Transforming to a Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) approach, in which the Alliance synchronizes capabilities across all 5 operational domains to achieve military objectives, will enhance deterrence and ens

Alliance Warfare Development Conference: Better Today, Stronger Tomorrow

Dec 19 2022 24 mins  
From December 6th-8th, 2022, Allied Command Transformation hosted the Alliance Warfare Development Conference (AWDC) for more than 150 guests from 34 Allied and partner nations, including senior leadership from NATO commands. Today, Head of Strategic Issues and Engagements in the Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate at ACT, Dr. Vlasta Zekulic, joins us to discuss AWDC and its rol

Strategic Foresight: Trends and Adjacent Futures

Dec 19 2022 31 mins  
In 2023, ACT’s Strategic Foresight Branch will publish a new Strategic Foresight Analysis that is designed to inform NATO’s long-term policy and capability development priorities. Strategic Foresight branch head Dr. Gergely Nemeth joins us for a discussion on current trends, trajectories, and underlying dynamics that could shape the future security environment.

Centers of Excellence: NATO’s Capacity Multipliers

Dec 09 2022 25 mins  
With specialized subject matter expertise, NATO accredited Centers of Excellence (COEs) distribute their in-depth knowledge through concept development, training, doctrine, and lessons learned. Today, NATO benefits from 28 accredited COEs and will soon welcome two more: the NATO space COE and another COE focused on climate change security. In this episode, Rasa Pazarauskiene,

NATO Digital Transformation

Nov 23 2022 25 mins  
In Fall 2022, a vision for NATO Digital Transformation was endorsed by the Allied Defence Ministers to support Multi-Domain Operations (MDO). Today, we’re joined today by Mr. JR Couture, a digital evangelist at NATO’s Allied Command Transformation, to discuss the processes, policies, and procedures of Digital Transformation that will enhance c

Accession and Military Integration: Finland and Sweden

Oct 28 2022 26 mins  
On July 5th, 2022, Finland and Sweden formally confirmed their willingness and ability to meet the political, legal and military obligations and commitments for NATO membership. Join ACT Staff Officer Bruce Hutchison for a conversation about the accession and military integration processes currently underway for both countries as they join the Alliance.