NATO Allied Command Transformation (ACT)

🌟 NATO & You(th): a conversation that keeps the Alliance future-proof. 🎓 This week, NATO Allied Command Transformation (ACT) welcomed 35 graduate students from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) to its headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia - NATO’s home in North America. 🗣️ In an open and forward-looking dialogue, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, General Aurelio Colagrande (Italian Air Force), and Major General Henrik Berg, Acting Chief of Staff at NATO Allied Joint Force Command Norfolk (JFCNF), shared their insights with students on NATO’s transformation and the evolving security environment. 🌍 The visit gave students a first-hand look at how NATO drives transformation, underscoring how these two commands serve as the transatlantic link that keeps the Alliance adaptable and future-ready. 💡 At NATO, engagement with academia and youth isn’t a side project: it’s part of how we stay relevant, connected, and ready for what’s next. 🚀That’s the power of NATO & You(th). #WeAreNATO #YouthEngagement #AcademicOutreach #FutureSecurity #NATO2030 The Johns Hopkins University

💡 Industrial agility and technological advantage are as vital to deterrence as military strength. Industry's cooperation with NATO is no longer a policy preference. It is a strategic necessity. 🤝 The NATO Industrial Advisory Group (NIAG) unites more than 5,000 companies across Allied nations, providing industry insight that shapes NATO’s capability development and innovation priorities. Through this partnership, industry and NATO anticipate challenges, align investments, and turn innovation into capability, ensuring the Alliance remains prepared, agile, and technologically ahead. ⚙️ As Ron Nulkes, Chair of the NIAG, explains: “The NIAG plays a pivotal role for NATO, its Allies and Partners, and industry, benefitting all parties: NATO learns early on what opportunities industry offers, and companies learn early on what NATO needs.” 🔗 Deepening this cooperation was at the heart of the NATO-Industry Forum 2025 in Bucharest. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eSc-xhDa #NATO #WeAreNATO #NATOIndustryForum #NIAG #Innovation #DefenceIndustry #CollectiveSecurity #Transformation #Deterrence

Integration in Motion: Exercise STEADFAST DUEL 2025 brought together all 32 NATO Allies in the Alliance’s most complex command-post exercise to date, a powerful demonstration that credible defence begins with full Allied integration across every domain and region. Directed by the NATO Joint Warfare Centre and supported by NATO Allied Command Transformation (ACT), the exercise tested NATO’s ability to command and coordinate large-scale multi-domain operations under realistic conditions. It showed that readiness today means translating strategy into synchronized action across land, air, maritime, cyber, and space. 🔗 Learn more about how STEADFAST DUEL 2025 demonstrated the power of digital integration, experimentation, and joint training to deliver operational advantage: https://lnkd.in/eJFbMTSi #WeAreNATO #Transformation #Readiness #MDO #CollectiveDefence

💡 Rearming NATO is so much more than just increasing the production. It means producing smarter, faster, and together. 🤝 During the NATO-Industry Forum 2025 in Bucharest, Allied leaders, innovators, and industry executives explored what it will take to innovate, accelerate, and sustain the Alliance’s technological edge. ⚙️ From scaling up production and building affordable mass, to integrating #digitaltransformation, #AI, and counter-drone systems, conversations focused on how to translate innovation into capability, ensuring that #NATO remains ready for today and prepared for tomorrow. 🛡️ As Supreme Allied Commander Transformation Admiral Pierre VANDIER underlined in his keynote: “The pace of change today is unprecedented. Predictability is over. We must move to a posture of continuous adaptation, able to scale for mass with quick, affordable solutions while developing the most advanced ones. Industry is not just a supplier; it is part of NATO’s deterrence.” 🔗 NATO Allied Command Transformation (ACT) is connecting innovators, scientists, and warfighters to turn emerging technologies into operational advantage. This collaboration is shaping new tactics and concepts that help 32 nations deter and defend as one. #WeAreNATO #FutureWarfighting #InnovationEcosystem #NIF2025 #DefenceInnovation #EmergingTech

🚀 The Digital Backbone Experimentation #DiBaX25 is about leadership through innovation. As observers gathered in #Latvia, they saw how NATO Allied Command Transformation, Allies, and industry partners are shaping the future of defence. From #UAVs and secure networks to #AI-enabled situational awareness, #DiBaX brings theory into practice. 🌍 For the fourth year, Latvia has proven that hosting collaborative experiments can accelerate big changes in defence technology. By combining national leadership with multinational teamwork, innovation is transformed into readiness. DiBaX25 shows us: when Allies innovate together, we outpace tomorrow’s threats today. #WeAreNATO #DigitalBackbone #InnovationInDefence

At NATO Allied Command Transformation, we welcomed Ambassador Lapsley, United Kingdom Permanent Representative to NATO, for a roundtable with senior leadership on how CWIX, DiBAX, Dynamic Messenger and Audacious Training can accelerate NATO’s transformation. 🧭 Discussions centred on advancing NATO exercises and events that test new operational concepts and emerging technologies, aligning capability development and force lethality enhancements within the NATO Defence Planning Process, and accelerating common funding mechanisms to deliver shared capabilities faster. The dialogue also highlighted the growing importance of the space domain, where strategic foresight and coordinated action are key to preserving decision advantage and maintaining stability. ⚙️ These discussions reflect a shared commitment to ensure that Allied innovation translates into operational capability, keeping NATO prepared, agile, and ready for the challenges of tomorrow. #WeAreNATO #NATOACT #CapabilityDevelopment #Innovation #CollectiveDefence #Space #Transformation

🚀 The future of warfare is being written today, driven by technologies that are transforming the way we deter and defend. 🎯 During Day Two of the NATO-Industry Forum, following inspiring remarks by President of #Romania Nicușor Dan, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, and Supreme Allied Commander Transformation Admiral Pierre VANDIER, Allied leaders and industry executives discussed how to: 💠 How to best improve the fielding of uncrewed systems, smart sensors, and AI-driven decision tools? 💠 How NATO’s innovation ecosystem should be redefined to maximize deterrence, resilience, and operational advantage? 💠 More? Better? Faster? Or good enough, but more and faster? 💠 How to share and manage risk effectively among all stakeholders? ⚙️At the core of the exchange was a shared understanding that innovation today is no longer about prototypes. It is about turning technology into capability, ensuring #NATO remains prepared, agile, and ahead of emerging threats. The rapid evolution of technology, driven by both state and non-state actors, has erased the boundary between military and commercial innovation, proving that scale, speed, and adaptability now define success on the modern battlefield. 🔗 At the ongoing NATO-Industry Forum, NATO and industry leaders are spotlighting game-changing solutions that are redefining the battlespace. Learn more about NATO–Industry cooperation: https://lnkd.in/eSc-xhDa #WeAreNATO #FutureWarfighting #NATOACT #InnovationEcosystem #NIF2025 #DefenceInnovation #EmergingTech

More than 900 participants gathered in Bucharest for the NATO-Industry Forum 2025! Co-hosted by NATO Allied Command Transformation (ACT) and the NATO Defence Investment, Innovation & Armament Division, the Forum kicked off with this year’s powerful theme: “Rearming NATO – Innovate, Accelerate, Sustain.” 💡 Day 1 highlights: ✨ Discussions on accelerating multinational acquisition and streamlining processes to deliver capabilities faster. 💰 Insights from leading financial experts on the art of financing for defence. 🤝 NATO experts, traditional defence partners, and deep-tech innovators united in exploring how to modernize armed forces at scale and speed, and envision the future of warfighting from an industry perspective. The conversations in Bucharest underscore the urgency of innovation, agility, and collaboration to strengthen our Alliance for the challenges ahead. #NIF2025 #NATO #Innovation #DefenceIndustry #Allies #Partnerships #Accelerate #Sustain

⚡In today’s unpredictable battlespace, advantage belongs to those who can turn new ideas into action fastest. Rapid adoption is becoming NATO’s new standard. The Alliance is bridging experimentation and field deployment in months, not years. 🤝At the NATO-Industry Forum, Allied and industry leaders are advancing pathways that incentivize innovation and rapid adoption. Together, they aim to accelerate delivery of affordable mass and next-generation capabilities, ensuring that new technologies reach the warfighter faster and more effectively. 🔗 Learn more about NATO–Industry cooperation: https://lnkd.in/eSc-xhDa #WeAreNATO #DefenceIndustry #CollectiveSecurity #NIF2025

📡 Secure, resilient communications are the backbone of NATO’s deterrence. At #DiBaX25, Allies and industry are testing innovations in networking—building systems that are harder to detect, tougher to intercept, and faster to integrate. 🔗 Out-of-the-box interoperability and rapid technology integration ensure NATO can adapt as quickly as the civilian sector, giving the Alliance a decisive edge in the information age. #WeAreNATO #DigitalBackbone #Innovation