From Arctic Today, September 3:
NATO’s next command-and-control architecture may be emerging at Europe’s northern edge. From simulation work to uncrewed-systems trials, allies are testing how artificial intelligence, sensors and autonomous platforms can be joined into a single operational chain.
As NATO in June announced that its Palantir-based Maven Smart System command platform had achieved full operational capability, a group of allied operators started experimenting with uncrewed systems trials off the coast of Iceland.
The group, called Task Force X-Arctic, is the technology-experimentation arm of Arctic Sentry, led by Joint Force Command Norfolk (U.S., UK, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) which coordinates allied exercises, presence and deterrence in the Arctic.
At the same time, on the shores of some of Norway’s longest and deepest fjords, a group of startup founders were taking their first steps towards integrating their simulation and decision-support solutions into Maven, the Pentagon-initiated command and targeting platform built by Palantir.
While most of European NATO is still holding its breath, a handful of nations are coming together to birth what looks to become the first command-and-control system for NATO’s new defence technologies.
The launch of TFX-Arctic comes just two weeks after U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Sweden’s Helsingborg signed an agreement for a bilateral technology transfer deal in artificial intelligence and defence innovation. With this, Sweden became only the second country to sign the so-called Technology Prosperity Deal after the UK, accelerating transatlantic defence industrial collaboration.
The pattern is clear. Arctic security is increasingly tied to allied software integration and industrial access. But let’s get back to the small decision-support startup in Bergen....
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Probably good to be prepared. This is the top headline at The Barents Observer, September 3:Norway seizes Russia's Svalbard liner
