The future is undoubtedly more digital. We need tools that make us quicker, support the decision-making cycle of the headquarters, and reduce the staffing burden. The Maven Smart System is one example of how we are implementing a digital system across ACO and training headquarters to use and exploit it within the warfighting system.
– JWC Deputy Chief of Staff Operations
NATO formally recognized the critical importance of AI when it adopted the Artificial Intelligence Strategy in 2021, which was further revised in 2024 to account for the rapid evolution of technologies such as generative AI.
The Joint Warfare Centre (JWC) is adopting new tools and technologies to become more efficient in its exercise planning, design and execution process. Digitalizing the JWC is guided by the three pillars of digital transformation: data-driven capability, multi-domain operations, and shaping a digital-ready force.
Our delivery of high-quality, well-informed exercises relies on digital transformation. This ensures that the technology we adopt and utilize during an exercise is operationally important in the short term and informs digital strategy in the long term.
The imperative to introduce AI and automation into JWC-directed exercises is not simply to digitally replicate existing capability, but to provide us with the disruptive tools to handle increasingly complex data sets and scenarios whilst maintaining the speed of relevance.
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