Romanian military systems tested successfully within NATO

Starting with May 2004, C2 (Command and Control) system, provided to the Romanian Ministry of Defence by UTI Systems Inc., has participated for four weeks in the Joint Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (JWID) Programme, annual event whose purpose is to improve the interoperability among the C2 systems of the NATO member nations.

The exercises took place close to Lillehammer, in Norway, and consisted in performing about 1200 interoperability tests among more than fifty C2 systems. Both systems belonging to the armies of the NATO members states and of the partner countries (Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Great Britain, Norway, the Netherlands, Romania, Spain, the United States of America, Sweden and Turkey), and the systems operated by NATO through Allied Command Operations, Allied Command Transformation and NATO Consultation, Command and Control Agency took part in the tests.

Romania participated with the SIAAB system (Information System for the Activity Assistance at the Mechanised Brigade) that was submitted to more than 70 military messaging and PKI interoperability tests. Using the certSAFE and shellSAFE products, the SIAAB system operators established a trust chain through cross-certification with NATO’s PKI system and with the PKI systems belonging to other participating countries; electronically signed certificates were sent between the cross-certified systems in order to verify the trust chain. All the tests, both the messaging ones and the PKI tests were passed successfully.

Besides the tests, the SIAAB system also participated in the playing of a fight scenario, which reunited all the NATO member nations.