The fifth Annual Discipline Conference (ADC) for the Operations Planning, Operations Assessment, and Alternative Analysis (#OPOAAA) discipline took place at the Kromhout Barracks in Utrecht, The Netherlands, on April 2nd and 3rd, 2025. The NATO Command and Control Centre of Excellence serves as the Department Head (DH) for this discipline. The conference was hosted by the NATO C2COE and led by LTC Chris Vast, who acted as the department head on behalf of the NATO C2COE.
This year’s edition welcomed 22 officers, specialists, and managers from various entities, aligning the OPOAAA efforts to enhance the Alliance. This discipline is one of the numerous disciplines within the NATO Global Programming (GP) for Education & Training, Exercises, and Evaluation (ETEE), which oversees Education and Training (E&T) within NATO. Each discipline has its own specific focus to prevent duplication and inefficiency.
The NATO C2COE will publish a Discipline Alignment Plan (DAP) and, based on experiences and the ADC discussions, continue its role as the DH. With the challenge of “connecting the dots,” finding and orchestrating appropriate solutions for the present and the future, the NATO C2COE has an improved focus and scope on this topic
