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NATO is turning to the private sector for help in upgrading its satellite and computer technology. The Alliance is planning to spend three billion Euro on expanding satellite communication bandwidth, command and control (C2) software, upgrading NATO’s networks and cyber defence. Some 40 contracts are being put out to tender between now and 2019. The investment will be financed by all NATO Allies.

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In early 2017, the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence held a one-day event inviting participants to come up with ideas to detect fake news. The gathering in Riga (Latvia) attracted 28 people from various backgrounds such as coders, journalists and statisticians. The winning idea was a Facebook game named ‘FakeBuster’ that teaches media literacy and trains critical thinking. The footage includes general views from the event and soundbites from participants

A short docu-drama about the partisans from the Baltic States who waged a guerrilla war against the occupying Soviet forces after the Second World War. Interviews with former partisan fighters and those who supported them. Dramatic battle scene recreations and interviews with the modern-day Special Forces of Lithuania, the direct descendants of the Forest Brothers.

Meet the men and women who work every day for NATO. From soldiers to scientists, cyber experts to civilian emergency responders, NATO members are committed to supporting and protecting each other.

The NATO battlegroup based in Latvia has held a capabilities demonstration. Each of the six enhanced Forward Presence nations took part. The battlegroup was properly stood up at the end of last month. It’s led by Canada and includes soldiers from Albania, Italy, Poland, Slovenia and Spain. Three other battlegroups are stationed in Estonia, Lithuania and Poland. They are an important part of NATO’s defence and deterrence posture in the eastern and south-eastern part of the Alliance.

NATO-led exercise Dynamic Mongoose took place in the North Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland. Participants were training anti-submarine warfare (ASW) interoperability and anti-surface capabilities.

Naval forces from Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, the United Kingdom and the United States participated with ships and submarines, under the command of Standing NATO Maritime Group One (SNMG1).

Host nation Iceland provided support both from Reykjavik Harbour and Keflavik Air Base, and the Icelandic Coast Guard also participated. In addition, eight maritime aircraft participated, under operational command of NATO Maritime Air Command.

Research vessel ‘NRV Alliance’ also took part in the exercise this year, to test maritime unmanned systems for anti-submarine warfare.

Teaser: NATO-led exercise Dynamic Mongoose took place in the North Atlantic ocean, off the coast of Iceland, with ships, submarines, aircraft and personnel from 10 Allied nations for anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare training.

More than 25,000 service personnel from over 20 NATO Allies and partner nations are taking part in Saber Guardian 2017, the largest of 18 Black Sea region exercises this year. This US-led exercise is being held in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania. It's aimed at building readiness and improving interoperability. In Bordușani, Romania, Romanian military personnel built a floating bridge across the Danube River, allowing Romanian and American vehicles and soldiers to cross over. The river crossing was complemented with a large-scale tactical demonstration, including a tank and ship assault against a simulated enemy providing cover for the crossing vehicles. The work involved 1,500 troops from the Romanian Navy, Air Force and Army, 100 Americans from the 1st Battalion, 2nd Cavalry Regiment and 300 vehicles. Another part of the exercise took place at an airbase near Constanta, Romania. It involved multinational troops training in a mass casualty exercise. The medics came from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Footage includes aerial shots of the floating bridge with Romanian T-55 battle tanks and American M1126 Stryker combat vehicles crossing.

Meet the men and women who work every day for NATO. From soldiers to scientists, cyber experts to civilian emergency responders, NATO members are committed to supporting and protecting each other.

The “Weapons Intelligence Team” course took place at the NATO Counter Improvised Explosive Devices (C-IED) Centre of Excellence, in Hoyo de Manzanares, Spain in June 2017.

An “improvised explosive device” (IED), like a roadside bomb, is a type of unconventional explosive weapon that can take any form, is inexpensive and easy to get by terrorists and insurgents. It represents a critical threat both in theatre of operations and at home.

NATO has acquired inputs and intelligence from the analysis of the increasingly sophisticated weapons systems that insurgents and terrorists are using, and has developed an action plan to detect and neutralise IEDs and to identify and disrupt the networks supporting this threat.

The Weapons Intelligence Team course is a tool to spread this IED expertise to NATO Allies and partner countries.

During the course, the students learn how to collect evidence as well as identify, locate and target different threat networks using IEDs, such as roadside bombs. The first part of the course took place in a land environment in Hoyo de Manzanares, Spain, where the NATO C-IED Centre of Excellence is located. For the first time, the last week of the course took place in a maritime scenario, at Naval Station Rota in Spain.

The “Weapons Intelligence Team” course took place at the NATO Counter Improvised Explosive Devices (C-IED) Centre of Excellence, in Hoyo de Manzanares, Spain in June 2017.

An “improvised explosive device” (IED), like a roadside bomb, is a type of unconventional explosive weapon that can take any form, is inexpensive and easy to get by terrorists and insurgents. It represents a critical threat both in theatre of operations and at home.

NATO has acquired inputs and intelligence from the analysis of the increasingly sophisticated weapons systems that insurgents and terrorists are using, and has developed an action plan to detect and neutralise IEDs and to identify and disrupt the networks supporting this threat.

The Weapons Intelligence Team course is a tool to spread this IED expertise to NATO Allies and partner countries.

During the course, the students learn how to collect evidence as well as identify, locate and target different threat networks using IEDs, such as roadside bombs. The first part of the course took place in a land environment in Hoyo de Manzanares, Spain, where the NATO C-IED Centre of Excellence is located. For the first time, the last week of the course took place in a maritime scenario, at Naval Station Rota in Spain.