New highly portable tactical systems satisfy the growing strategic need, common to all North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member countries. In fact, current complex operational scenarios require armed forces to rapidly demonstrate deployment capabilities, for both conflict needs and peace support operations.
In order to respond to this need, NATO has developed an action plan, named “Readiness Action Plan” (RAP) and the Italian Army has fully understood the importance of its fulfillment.TELEDIFE (the Italian Defence Telecommunication Procurement Directorate) delegated the development of the technical specification to the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA) due to its knowledge and previous experience of current systems in place.
Under the framework of the RAP, the NCIA has launched an international call for tenders for the supply of transportable tactical systems required for Communication and Information System (CIS) and data management (Command and Control).
More than 250 companies belonging to the 28 member countries of the Alliance were notified about the tender for the project.
As a result of its competitive costs and compliance with the requirements of the tender, Italtel was chosen to build the two transportable data centers, destined to be used by “NATO Rapid Deployable Corps – Italy” (NRDC-ITA) in various overseas locations where allied forces are deployed.
The importance of being awarded this tender is evident when considering the complexity of the technical specification in the CIS and data management categories.
This achievement recognizes Italtel’s constant hard work over the last two years, through a continuous strengthening of the relationship between various divisions within the Italian Armed Forces and NATO. Italtel has built a complex and delicate dialogue with a select number of Italian and international suppliers, who have assisted us in creating the winning solution for our project. Italtel has achieved a prestigious result for Italy and has now been placed at the center of a comprehensive network of national and international relations.
The transportable data centers, realized and provided by Italtel with Cisco and EMC2 technologies, have been used for the first time during NATO training exercise, named “Summer Tempest – Eagle Meteor 2016” in autumn 2016.
The exercise was managed by the NRDC-ITA, stationed in Solbiate Olona, near Varese (Northern Italy). The exercise brought together several armies from member countries of the Atlantic Alliance.