NATO requirements in Military Unit Requirement Specifications, Experiences step 1

Authors:

  • Anna Sparf

Publish date: 2011-06-22

Report number: FOI-R--3222--SE

Pages: 31

Written in: Swedish

Keywords:

  • PARP PG
  • NATO Task List (NTL)
  • Capability Codes and Capability Statements
  • military unit specifications

Abstract

In the project "NATO Requirements for Military Unit Specifications", the Joint Strategy and Operations Staff, J0 Operational Requirements Division (INSS J0) has begun the work of allocating NATO Requirements to units. The primary goal of the project is to raise the quality of the military unit requirement specifications by allocating interoperability requirements to the units. The purpose is to attach a list of NATO requirements to the military unit requirement specifications. The NATO requirements allocated to units in the project are the Partnership Goals (PARP PG), NATO Task List, Capability Codes and Capability Statements and Allied Command Operations Forces Standard. In step 1 the Joint Strategy and Operations Staff, J0 Operational Requirements Division (INSS J0) has allocated PARP PG with NATO tasks as well as Capability Codes and Capability Statements to units. During workshop 1, experts from each unit evaluated the current level of fulfilment for the Armed Forces 2014. Based on the result from the evaluation of workshop 1, the value of working with NATO requirements can be considered high. The unit experts were in general in favour of using NATO requirements for specifying parts of the requirements on units. On the other hand they did not think that the NATO requirements allocated to the units would suffice to describe the complete set of requirements. The military unit requirement specifications then need to be supplemented with a specific set of Swedish requirements, on the one hand to be able to specify requirements on smaller units and on the other hand to be able to handle Swedish solutions that diverge from the NATO structure. The NATO requirements were also considered too be un-specific and with too low resolution. NATO requirements do not express any levels of ambition. They need to be supplemented with assumptions of when and to what extent a requirement should be applied to be able to govern the future development of military units.