NATO Standardization Agency - The Bolin Group

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What is a STANAG and an AP ? NATO STANDARDIZATION AGREEMENT (STANAGs) “The record of an agreement among several or all member nations to adopt like or similar military equipment, ammunition, supplies, stores as well as operational, logistic and administrative procedures”. ALLIED PUBLICATION (APs) “An AP is an official NATO standardization document which some or all NATO nations agree to use as a common implementing document and which is distributed down to user level”. Director’s office 18
Top-Down / Bottom-up Standardization Top-Down • initiated when the Strategic Commands identify Military Standardization Requirements (MSR) • part of the Force Proposals for nations participating in the Force Planning Process . ⇒ longer and slower Bottom-Up •initiated by reporting standardization needs and/or deficiencies by Nations or NATO commands • followed by Standardization Proposals (SPs), formulated by NATO Working Groups, • validated by the appropriate Authority who has to confirm the SP before the development of STANAG/AP starts. ⇒ react in short time to shortfalls/ interoperability gaps Director’s office 19
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