B.6. Emerging Considerations

130. Concepts like NATO Net Enabled Capabilities will migrate the capabilities of the NATO Enterprise towards new emerging solutions.  The development of the emerging interface profiles will follow the same strategies that were used for the baseline profiles.

B.6.1. Emerging NATO-NRF Information Environment

131. It is envisioned that interoperability will be possible across numerous layers of activity between NATO and Nations.  This new information environment will be fully meshed and interoperable to support future out of area conflicts, meet rapid response timelines, accommodate the diverse churn of nations supporting an NRF, and bring closer together information consumers and providers.

NRF Information Environment
Figure B.6. NRF Information Environment

B.6.2. Emerging Service Interoperability Point

132. The concept of an interoperability point in the emerging information environment still exist, in fact multiple points of interoperability can exist, as we stack various applications and services onto a consistent communication service.  In this environment one nation can host another nation’s user and mission based functional services.  This minimizes the need for each nation to develop duplicative and similar levels of capability.  Instead a trust relationship can be established by which an aggregated capability can be offered to the NRF versus a duplicative capability that each nation must have.

Service Interoperability Point
Figure B.7. Service Interoperability Point