Dear Panel Members and Guests,

The SET Panel is pleased to announce the 53rd Panel Business Meeting will take place 17-19 April 2024 at Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Hotel reservations are solely the responsibility of the participants. Participants should make their own reservations as early as possible.  Detailed information on accommodations local to the venue can be found in the GIP.

Registration Deadline: 15 March 2024.
It is essential to adhere to the specified deadline
I kindly ask that you complete your registration before the deadline to ensure your participation.
Late registrations will not be accepted.

Note: the General Information Package (GIP) can be downloaded once your booking has been validated. Please return to this page and log on with your credentials to download the document.

Meeting attendees are kindly requested to create an account and register no later than 15 March 2024.

We look forward to seeing you in Amsterdam!

REGISTRATION IS CLOSED 

Deadline to enrol: 18 March 2024

The NATO Science and Technology Organization (STO) Collaboration Support Office and the Information Systems Technology (IST) Panel are pleased to announce the registration opening for the International Conference on Military Communication and Information Systems (ICMCIS), to be held on 23-24 April 2024 in Koblenz, Germany.

ICMCIS 2024 is Public Release and only open to citizens from NATO Nations, NATO bodies and STO Enhanced Opportunity Partners (Australia, Japan, Sweden).

Held as a STO Information Systems Technology (IST) Panel activity (IST-205 RSY), ICMCIS 2024 is organised by the Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology, and In-Service Support (BAAINBw) in Koblenz, with support from Fraunhofer FKIE, NASK and NCIA.

The ICMCIS is the largest scientific conference in Europe on military CIS. It provides a forum for exchanging ideas and knowledge on the development and implementation of advanced information and communications technologies (ICTs) for defence and military systems.

Keynote Speakers

• Tomas Tauginas, Lithuanian Armed Forces STRATCOM Department
• Rainer Beeck, German Land Command, CDO Land
• Andreas Knopp, University of the Bundeswehr Munich
• Jeroen van den Hoven, Delft University of Technology

The Conference is in-person only.

To register, please login with your STO Events credentials or create an account if you do not already have one. After login you will see at the bottom of this page the green button “Book now”; click on it to start to enrol.

The General Information Package (GIP) specifying fees, logistics, accommodation, travel, etc. will be visible and ready for download on this website after your registration has been validated by the IST Panel Office. After validation, return to this page again, log on with your credentials and download the GIP located in the grey box below the Google maps picture or above the bar below.

Note: The block-booked hotel rooms at the first hotel listed in the GIP couldn't be reserved on the Sunday evening, so if you include this date when using the booking link in the GIP this hotel will not be proposed as available; Should you choose this hotel, you will have to indicate Monday until Friday and additionally book by yourself on the Sunday. 

More information can be found on the ICMCIS website at https://icmcis.eu and on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com.

Please ensure that you enrol before 18 March 2024 at 23:59 CET (Paris time). Registration will then be closed.

You will need to indicate your professional email account since personal email accounts (hotmail, gmail, etc.) cannot be accepted.

For content and technical matters, please contact the ICMCIS Chair, Mr. Antoine Smallegange, at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. For logistical and administrative questions, please contact the IST Panel Office at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

We look forward to greeting you at this second edition of the ICMCIS as a NATO STO event.

Technical Course 
MSG-211 

"Modelling and Simulation Standards in NATO Federated Mission Networking"

Organized by the
NATO Modelling & Simulation Group
to be held in

Online – 29-30 April 2024

Check-in will start each day at 12:45 PM CET.  

The meeting will run from 1:00 PM to 5:30 PM each day.

This Lecture Series is open to citizens from NATO,

Partnership-for-Peace (PfP) Nations and Global Partners.

Background

Federated Mission Networking (FMN) is a major NATO thrust to support interoperability on "Day Zero" to enable NATO nations and partners to execute upcoming missions. FMN is not a single network, but rather a networking approach designed to ensure interoperability among nations participating in a coalition, based on agreed standards and practices. To this end, Modeling and Simulation provides a significant part of this capability, incorporating state-of-the-art information technologies and methodologies into integration of systems of systems. NMSG committed to supporting the specification process for M&S-enabled capabilities in the FMN under previous MSG-193 and current MSG-201 (M&S in FMN), spanning a total of four years. The NMSG activities have been designated as Inter-Working-Group M&S Syndicate supporting the work of the FMN Operational Coordination Working Group (OCWG) and Capability Planning Working Group (CPWG).
The M&S Syndicate produces drafts of two requirements documents with each Spiral of the FMN specification process: Procedural Instructions (PI), written from an operational requirements perspective, and Service Instructions (SI), written from a technical requirements perspective. MSG-201 has organized a multinational team to participate in the annual Coalition Warrior Interoperability Exploration, Experimentation, Examination and Exercise (CWIX) to test the ability of the standards and practices specified in the SI, working together, to meet the requirements described in the PI.

Objective

MSG-211 Technical Course instruction in modelling and simulation standards in NATO FMN will provide explanation and exposition of the standards and practices described in FMN PIs and SIs to personnel from across NATO organizations, nations, and partner nations, in particular, the Science and Technology Organization (STO), Allied Command Transformation (ACT), Allied Command Operations (ACO), and supporting organizations and nations participating in NMSG.
Furthermore, the instruction will provide operational and technical information on application of M&S in FMN, building on the successful hybrid approach of MSG-194, Employing the C2-Simulation Interoperation (C2SIM) Standard for Coalition Military Operations and Exercises.

Scientific topics to be covered

The present instruction will offer online presentations in Days 1 and 2 covering the operational considerations and technical standards and practices for M&S in FMN as described in the PIs and SIs, presented by experts with experience in MSG-201 and its CWIX teams. The first two half-day sessions will be followed by a hands-on interactive half-day session on Day 3  providing a level of understanding that is possible only by actually working with the described standards and practices.
Specific standards and practices to be covered will be those in the PI and SI, amplified by CWIX experience. In FMN Spiral 5 these have included Command and Control Systems – Simulatiion Systems Interoperation (C2SIM), High Level Architecture (HLA), the NATO Education and Training Network (NETN) Federation Object Model (FOM) interoperability standard, and cloud computing aspects of Modeling and Simulation as a Service (MSaaS). Presenters in the RTC are significant contributors to PI and SI drafting and/or their CWIX testing. Spiral 6 is likely to build on these with topics such as the SISO Distributed Simulation Engineering and Execution Process (DSEEP) and a broadened set of cloud-based M&S practices.

Deadline

All registered participants will be sent a separate invitation by email with connection details for remote attendance to the 2-day course.

Enrollment for participation in the online sessions will close on 23 April 2024.