Welcome to the ATCCIS Web Site.
The specifications contained in this Web Site enable interoperability of information between heterogeneous C2 systems.
By 2002, 18 nations and NATO agencies had incorporated these specifications into their programmes and systems.
The ATCCIS specification is a managed interface between C2 information systems. When incorporated into a system it enables interoperability of information between any other system that also incorporates the specification. Battlespace data is transferred as information. The meaning and context of the information is preserved across national and system boundaries precisely and without any ambiguity.
This Web Site contains:
The new ATCCIS Baseline 2.0
and the Phase V
minutes.
The archive of the ATCCIS Phase IV including
the Baseline 1.0.
The archive
of the ATCCIS Phase
III.
The archive
of the ATCCIS Phase
II.
The ATCCIS Address
List.
The archive of the
Phase
III and Phase IV
minutes.
It will also guide you, according to your requirements, to the documents that are relevant:
If
you are in charge of the Operational Requirements,
press Operational on the menu.
If you
are interested in the LC2IEDM Data Model
press Data
Modelling on the menu.
If
you want to know the policies used to
build the Data Model (LC2IEDM) press Data
Management.
If you
have to implement the ATCCIS Replication
Mechanism (ARM), press Data
Replication.
If you want to know more about ATCCIS and its historical context, press History.
A summary of ATCCIS achievements is in the bottom right side notes.
Press here to have a quick view of the ATCCIS meetings in Phase V and their minutes (ATCCIS-2000).
The ATCCIS Phase V Final Report is a management report that summarises the ATCCIS phenomenon. It defines ATCCIS and explains its position, activity, achievements and national activity. Also the future with the Multilateral Interoperability Programme is described.
ATCCIS stands for Army Tactical Command and Control Information
System.
The ATCCIS programme is not a formal NATO programme. Rather it
is a voluntary and independent activity by the participating
nations and is sponsored by SHAPE.
The objective was (and still remains) to see if interoperability
can be obtained at reduced cost and developed according to technical
standards agreed by Nations and prescribed by NATO. The
aim given to the programme was to identify the minimum set of
specifications, to be included within C2 systems, to allow
interoperability between national C2 systems.
The information exchange requirements, upon which ATCCIS is founded,
encompass the spectrum of Joint and Combined Land Operations.
Thus ATCCIS meets the requirements of the Land Component Commander
of Allied Joint and Combined Operations (including Article 5 and
Crisis Response Operations). Systems may be wholly
different from each other and need not necessarily conform to
any hardware or software standard.
ATCCIS Members
ATCCIS Concept
The ATCCIS specifications consist of two main
components: a data model and a replication mechanism.
The Land C2 Information Exchange Data Model, LC2IEDM,
is the fundamental product. It
is a product of the analysis of a wide spectrum of allied
information exchange requirements by 16 nations.
It models the information that allied land component
commanders need to exchange (both vertically and horizontally).
It serves as the common interface specification for the
exchange of essential battlespace information.
The function, implementation and the display of the host C2
application is not the concern of ATCCIS.
System developers incorporate the ATCCIS specification and
include a single interface to it.
Thereafter no further interfaces are required to
interoperate with any other ATCCIS enabled system.
The LC2IEDM is in its 5th generation (version 5).
The previous version, LC2IEDM v2, is the core of the
NATO Reference Model and is also a view model of NATO
Corporate Data Model (STANAG 5523 / AdatP-32). The LC2IEDM
v5 is offered to the NATO Data Administration Group as a revision
to the view model.
The ATCCIS Replication Mechanism, the ARM, is
complementary to the LC2IEDM data model. When a C2
application changes the state of information that it holds, and
which is recognised by the ATCCIS specification, this information
is automatically replicated to all other co-operating systems that
have agreed to exchange this information. The meaning and
context of the information is preserved and requires no additional
processing on receipt to make it useful. System managers
are able to decide to whom information flows, when and over what
communications medium. It should be noted that
communication protocols and communication systems are not part of
ATCCIS, since the transfer facility employs agreed international
standards. Currently, X.400, X.25, and TCP/IP are
included within the specification.
The ATCCIS specifications enable interoperability at Degree 3
(The NATO Policy for C3 Interoperability, NC3B sub-committee
AC/322-SC/2-WP/72 -revised- version 4.3) and functions at NATO
Level 5 of System Interconnection (STANAG 5048 - The Minimum
Scale of Connectivity for Communications and Information Systems
for
In
a community of ATCCIS-enabled C2 systems nations, command levels
and organisations can share:
Situational awareness
Orders, plans and intentions
Capabilities and status of friendly and enemy forces.
Implementation of ATCCIS is a NATO Force Goal
(EL2880)
NATO Standardisation Agreement SO 01-11 calls
for the implementation of ATCCIS specifications.
The ATCCIS specification is the core capability of the
NC3A Integrated Data Environment, a capability to integrate legacy
systems. The current IDE
capability will integrate ADAMS, ICC, JOIIS, & MCCIS.
The ATCCIS specification is included in the NATO C3
Technical Architecture.
The NATO Military Criteria for High Readiness Forces
(Land) Headquarters requires the use of an ATCCIS conformant land
information system.
Many national C2 information systems implement
ATCCIS/MIP specifications.
SHAPE COFS stated in December 1999: "We
have really achieved the status from which a lot of initiatives in NATO
are currently ongoing. The focal point is to improve our capabilities and
to improve our interoperability. At the very beginning this was more
rhetorical than practical. However we are indeed, in the meanwhile,
improving somewhat. ATCCIS is a practical example of progress and will
become part of a success history within both initiatives."
ATCCIS Customers
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Caveats
The proprietary rights to
each Working Paper or file contained in this Web Site are reserved to those
nations, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany,
Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Turkey,
United Kingdom and United States, who, acting collectively, comprised the ATCCIS
project on 15 April 2002.
These nations have indicated that
the ATCCIS specifications contained in this Web Site may be made freely
available to any person, business, organisation or national government,
irrespective of national membership of NATO, on request, to
see them. Further these specifications may be used in any
information system, application or specification at the user’s risk and
without cost or specific authority, but no commercial, financial or
proprietary advantage may be taken from the use of information contained
in or derived from the contents of this Web Site.
NATO and member Governments
assume no responsibility for possible infringements of any inventions,
trademarks, copyrights, etc., embodied in this Working Paper. It is
the sole responsibility of anyone using the information to acquire the
necessary rights.
Security caveat:
All the documents
contained in this ATCCIS Web Site are NATO Unclassified,
releasable for Internet transmission. The documents reside in
the protected part of the Web Site, in order to have access to
them, you need a user-name and a password that will be provided,
on request, by the POC.
Formats remark:
All the hyperlinks
point to the Adobe Acrobat version of each document. In order
to get the Microsoft Word@, Microsoft Access 98@,
Microsoft Excel@ or Erwin 3.5.2@ you will
need to navigate through the Web Site (using for example MS Explorer@
or any FTP client).
Baseline
On March 18th 2002, the Heads
of Delegation approved the new ATCCIS Baseline that supersedes the
Baseline 1.0.
This Baseline 2.0 will have a broad distribution, including
the Multilateral Interoperability Programme (MIP).
The major achievement has been the new release of the LC2IEDM
(edition 5.0), that incorporates most of the Information Exchange Requirements for Crisis Response Operations and for
a Combined
Joint Task Force. It is more Joint and more non-article 5.
The HoDs celebrated the approval of the new Baseline in EDE (Nederland).