NATO Innovation Podcast

Organizing and tasking air-to-air refueling aircraft are pieces to a puzzle that is critical to mission success.  NATO’s Allied Command Transformation developed a user-friendly tool, JIGSAW, to manage these missions across several nations and vast territories. The NATO Innovation Podcast talks to LTC Jon Clow of the Royal Canadian Air Force, about JIGSAW’s development and deployment.

Former French Air Force Chief of Staff and new Supreme Allied Commander Transformation Gen. Philippe Lavigne talks about his policy agenda, the importance of innovation, and the strength of the Alliance.

The old model of top-heavy, gold-plated, committee-directed, sub-contracted military innovation is increasingly outmoded and outpaced by adversaries. The open innovation model emphasizes speed, agility, and collaboration...

Canadian Royal Air Force Colonel Sean Lewis, Lieutenant Colonel Dirk Mathes of the German Bundeswehr, and Simon Purton, the Deputy Branch Head for ACT’s Analysis of Alternatives Branch discuss the development of NATOs first machine-learning tool: Artificial Intelligence Front End Learning Information Execution, otherwise known as AI Felix.

Colonel Lewis, Lt. Colonel Dirk Mathes, and Deputy Branch Head Simon Purton continue to discuss AI Felix, its potential, and the value of AI to the future of the Alliance.

Robert “Butch” Bracknell, Staff Legal Advisor for International Law at Supreme Allied Commander Transformation discusses the process and practice of managing innovation from a legal and compliance perspective.

Marcus Gaul, Section Head for Analytics and Data Science at Allied Command Transformation and Lieutenant Commander James Carrick, project manager for AWARE, discuss the situational awareness enhancer which collects, processes, and visualizes multiple streams of open-source data to inform analysts and decision makers about patters of life in any operational environment.

In Fall 2022, a vision for NATO Digital Transformation was endorsed by the Allied Defence Ministers to support Multi-Domain Operations (MDO). Today, we’re joined today by Mr. JR Couture, a digital evangelist at NATO’s Allied Command Transformation, to discuss the processes, policies, and procedures of Digital Transformation that will enhance connectivity for the Alliance between domains, commands, and nations.