NITECH ››› SUPPORTING NATO AND THE NATIONS
Luis Bastos, Principal Scientist at the NCI Agency, explains the context of 5G as an emerging and disruptive technology that is driving a number of new technologies and applications. He also addresses how NATO and nations can benefit from it in day-to-day activities and operations and their associated challenges
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As part of its mission, the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) supports NATO transformation and innovation, including assessing technologies and developing innovative concepts to better perform NATO’s mission and maintain its technological edge. As an innovation activity, supported by NATO C3 (command, control, and communication) Staff and Allied Command Transformation’s programmes of work, a talented team in the Agency is investigating the potential of
5G for military applications. The Agency is also developing an ambitious multinational collaboration project in the field with nations, known as MN5G. 5G will not only revolutionise society as a whole, raising a number of challenges and concerns in multiple areas on the way, but will also bring many opportunities for the military. Exploiting those opportunities is challenging and requires significant effort over the long term.
