This week in Dresden, Germany, NATO Allied Command Transformation is conducting the Think-Tank for Information Decision and Execution Sprint, or “TIDE Sprint.” This event stands as one of Allied Command Transformation’s and NATO’s leading think-tank gatherings, aimed at fostering advancements and innovations that rapidly evolve concepts and specifications to enhance and design more interoperable partnership between NATO and Partner Nations.
At TIDE Sprint 2024, more than 500 attendees will utilize a combination of presentations, brainstorming sessions, educational seminars, demonstrations, and testing to enhance NATO and National capabilities with a specific focus on interoperability. This recurring assembly of NATO, military, industry, and academic experts is dedicated to advancing the compatibility of NATO’s national Command and Control capabilities and Information Technology services.
TIDE Sprint forms part of Allied Command Transformation’s Interoperability Continuum, a series of events including the Coalition Warrior Interoperability eXercise (CWIX) and TIDE Hackathon. Collectively, these events continuously improve NATO and partner nations’ ability to communicate, cooperate, and collaborate. They serve as forward-looking gatherings that bring together the extended TIDE Community to collaboratively address and resolve Command and Control capability and Information Technology service challenges.
TIDE Sprints tackle interoperability from multiple perspectives, including people, processes, and technology, by encouraging operators, engineers, scientists, and academics to share ideas and collaborate on current and future solutions.
Each TIDE Sprint consists of several Tracks, each led by an expert from a NATO Command or a National volunteer who collaborates with their Community of Interest to identify emerging requirements, pressing problems, and innovation opportunities. Their objective is to ensure NATO’s warfighters are prepared for success in future missions. The outcomes of TIDE Sprints are recommendations that can be implemented in other Interoperability Continuum events, NATO and National capability development efforts, or carried forward to the next TIDE Sprint event.
The Tracks for TIDE Sprint 2024 include: Cyberspace, Data-Centric Security, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Architecture, Interoperability Verification and Validation, Joint C2 in a Multi-Domain Environment, Logistics, Maritime Services, Medical, Service Management and Control, and TIDE Sprint School.
As operators, engineers, scientists, and technicians from government agencies, militaries, academia, and industry sectors convene this week, they will achieve in five days what would typically take many months. The outcomes and recommendations from TIDE Sprint events will shape NATO capability development efforts and future work programmes.
