NATO SFA COE DIRECTOR JOINS THE NATO INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY COES - ANNUAL MEETING 2022
On 12th of May the NATO SFA COE Director, Col Massimo Di
Pietro, joined the third annual meeting of the Intelligence and Security
related Centres of Excellence (COEs) organized by the Joint Intelligence
and Security Division (JISD) of the NATO International Staff (IMS) with
the NATO Intelligence Enterprise (NIE) to accelerate the cooperation and
exchanging of views in the area of Education and Training (E&T) and to
further strengthen the link between the NIE and relevant COEs.
The event consisted of two parts:
- a plenary session at which all COEs were
invited to prepare a brief introduction on the COEs and provide an update of
their current working strands mainly related to Intelligence and Security;
- a discussion session to obtain an update
on current and future work strands with regards to the Eastern flank of the
Alliance grouped into three specific sub-panels (technical exploitation,
indication and warning and cyber security and Hybrid threats).
During the free forum discussion, the NATO SFA COE Director
pointed out that the NATO SFA COE is involved in Intelligence and Security
related issues such as analysis, linkages and assessment because SFA principles
help to improve the “understanding” of the context in which Local Forces
operate. These topics are training modules of the “SFA Operators course” and of
the “Institutional Advisor Course”. Furthermore, the importance of the human
environment surrounding the role of SFA Operators (advisors, mentors and
trainers) was stressed; the SFA Operators effectively act as “social sensors”
concerning the situation on the field in the assisted nation.
The meeting was a great occasion to highlight the work of
NATO SFA COE within Intelligence and Security. It also demonstrated its
importance within the NATO community by sharing expertise and training
solutions or new dedicated projects such as the NATO SFA COE Guided Search
Engine for open source intelligence purposes (research/ analysis) of specific
geographic areas.