Preface

Abstract

Transformation of the military war fighting capabilities in order to align them to new and emerging strategic challenges necessitates fundamental changes in military doctrine and operational concepts, military forces organization, and the war fighters’ equipment and training. 
The concept of Network Centric Warfare (NCW) originated in the USA.  NCW along with its NATO counterpart, the NATO Network Enabled Capability (NNEC), are key innovational ideas that are seen as supporting the transformation of military operations. The transformation effort is aimed at increasing combat power by networking sensors, decision makers and shooters to achieve shared awareness, increased speed of command, higher tempo of operations, greater lethality, increased survivability, and an acceptable level of self-synchronisation. 
This calls for a systematic and comprehensive evaluation of the possibilities and the effectiveness of emerging information and communications technologies and their compliance with strict requirements, especially related to interoperability, mobility, security, adaptability, flexibility and integrity. (...)