On Thursday, 5 June 2025, the NATO Command and Control Centre of Excellence welcomed a delegation from the NATO Architecture Capability Team (ACaT) to its offices in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
During this meeting, insights were exchanged on ongoing and future initiatives aimed at enabling secure data sharing across NATO nations, systems, and processes. Discussions focused on both the (security) policy aspects within NATO nations and the implementation of technical standards essential for secure, interoperable data exchange.
A key question emerged: What should national military CIOs prioritize to ensure secure and seamless data sharing across the Alliance? The discussion that followed stressed the need for aligned security policies and robust technical standards, while remaining flexible where necessary.
About NATO ACaT
The Architecture Capability Team is a multinational group of approximately 30 senior architects across 14 nations and four NATO Enterprise bodies. ACaT reports directly to NATO’s Digital Policy Committee, a level 1 senior committee (previously the C3 Board), and works together on architectures across NATO. We review the C3 taxonomy and develop methodologies for C2 architectures, and in the future, we are looking at working on mission-based analysis. Many of its members serve in J6/C2 roles within their respective nations.
