From 9 to 20 October the Air Force took part in the NATO exercise called "Tactical Data Link Interoperability Test" and aimed at increasing the synergy between the various air, maritime and land components of the Atlantic Pact countries. The exercise event was the backdrop to a series of tests aimed at both verifying new procedures and improving the configurations of the IT systems responsible for managing operational missions.
The "workplace" created to experiment and share the data resulting from the tests and checks carried out by all the teams of the participating NATO countries - in technical jargon Battle Lab, as well as the heart of the exercise - allowed data exchange via a secure and controlled computer network called Combined Federated Battle Lab Network (CFBLNet), to which all the Battle Lab.
The contribution of the Air Force to the exercise took the form of careful and synergistic work which involved both the personnel of the Management and Innovation of Command and Control Systems (technical component), and that of the 22nd radar group of Licola (operational component).
In this 2nd annual edition, the national objectives focused both on improving the systems' capacity relating to the identification and tracking of friendly units in the area of operations, and on the analysis of specific procedures that contribute to the management of air units from part of a C2 (Command and Control) structure in carrying out certain operational activities.
The results emerging from all the tests carried out constitute the basis for a continuous modernization of configurations and procedures, with particular reference to the NATO STANAG (Standard Agreement) of the sector, and for a development of systems (hardware and software) increasingly responsive to the needs of the operational component.
