NATO RFI Special Notice: NATO Enablement Support Services (ESS) Increment 2

Notice ID: RFI-ACT-SACT-25-30

Headquarters Supreme Allied Command Transformation (HQ SACT) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to engage industry in facilitation of the Enablement Support Services (ESS) program. ESS will provide a coherent suite of functional tools for the NATO Logistics, Military Engineering, and Medical Support communities. The intention is to evaluate what could be immediately available, the art-of-the-possible, and state-of-the-art with respect to systems, products, services, technologies, and methodologies relating to command-and-control capabilities to effectively carry out multinational logistics, medical, and military engineering efforts through all phases of NATO operations.

Vision:

The program vision is that ESS will be NATO’s premier Command and Control capability to facilitate the alliance’s logistics, military engineering, and medical support, and will be employed in all aspects of NATO operations including defense, crisis management, and cooperative security, and through all phases of NATO operations, peacetime activities to crises.

ESS will provide NATO’s logistics, military engineering, and medical communities with capabilities that will integrate data from NATO systems, member nations, commercial and open sources; provide analytical functions and ultimately support decision-making processes. ESS will operate in both fixed and mobile environments, at different security levels; ESS will be used by staff at all NATO locations and across all three level of commands (strategic, operational and tactical).  ESS will enable the exchange of information within NATO and across multinational forces.

It is envisioned that the ESS requirements will be fulfilled by a set of functional tools to be procured incrementally and potentially adapted. ESS intends to follow a modular, iterative and incremental design and will operate as a flexible, interoperable, adaptable and scalable suite of functional tools which conform to secure systems design that utilize zero trust and Data Centric Security. The program aims to minimize integration risks by maximizing requirement fulfilment with as few solutions as possible, as well as to promote collaboration, avoid overlap and minimize the training and support needs.  To the extent feasible, there is also an aspiration to fulfil requirements that are common to all functional areas, such as ‘Modelling and Simulation’, with a single platform or solution.  Acknowledging these ambitions, the programme also fully recognizes the possibility of an ESS solution comprised of tools and services from numerous vendors and Nations …

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