Digital Transformation: Powering NATO’s Edge in a Multi-Domain World

Digital Transformation is how NATO turns information into power. In today’s world, strength alone is not enough. Speed, agility, and the ability to act seamlessly across land, air, maritime, cyberspace, and space are what keep the Alliance ahead. By ensuring that data flows securely and reliably, NATO can connect knowledge to action, giving commanders the clarity and confidence to make decisions at the speed of relevance. This is the foundation of Multi-Domain Operations, and without it, deterrence and defence cannot succeed.

What defines Digital Transformation is not technology alone, but the culture that ensures it delivers results. NATO is treating data as a mission asset, building trust through principles of accessibility, security, and sharing. The goal is to create a digital environment where Allies and partners can connect, exploit, and act on information collectively. By embedding these practices, NATO is creating the conditions to deter, defend, and manage crises with speed and confidence, ensuring the Alliance is ready for the fight tonight, and tomorrow.

Watch the video to hear Colonel Joost Wezemer explain how Digital Transformation and data centricity are shaping NATO’s future through the Alliance Data Sharing Ecosystem (ADSE)⬇️

By embedding digital practices and creating conditions for innovation, NATO Allied Command Transformation (ACT) is ensuring NATO remains agile, interoperable, and technologically superior. Why Digital Transformation matters?

• Turning data into capability: Digital Transformation ensures that information is no longer locked in silos but becomes an operational asset. By organizing and making data accessible, NATO can apply advanced tools such as artificial intelligence and machine learning to deliver predictive insights, strengthen situational awareness, and support rapid, coordinated decision-making across all levels of command.
• Enabling Multi-Domain Operations: NATO’s ability to act seamlessly across all operational domains depends on Digital Transformation. Through the Alliance Data Sharing Ecosystem (ADSE), fragmented information becomes a trusted, shared resource, giving commanders a common operational picture. This digital backbone turns Multidomain-Operation from concept into reality, enabling faster, coordinated decisions and preserving NATO’s decision advantage.
• Shaping a digitally ready workforce: Transformation is about people as much as technology. NATO Allied Command Transformation is training and empowering a workforce able to make fast, informed decisions at the speed of relevance. This is being tested and refined during major exercises such as DiBax, the TIDE Hackathon, and CWIX, where NATO troops and experts train to apply digital solutions in complex, real-world environments.

Digital Transformation: Building the Foundations for a Multi-Domain Operations Enabled Alliance. Without the ability to share and exploit data across domains, orchestrating operations at speed becomes impossible. Digital Transformation provides the foundation for Multi-Domain Operations, ensuring that information flows securely and reliably to empower commanders and decision-makers to act with clarity and confidence. At the core of this transformation is data centricity — treating data as a strategic asset that is discoverable, accessible, trusted, secure, and shared. NATO’s ability to deter, defend, and manage crises depends on harnessing this data from across all sources.

NATO Allies Advance Maritime Innovation through Dynamic Messenger 2025: during the exercise NATO Allied Command Transformation was testing cutting-edge technologies that push the boundaries of experimentation. Among them was TALOS, developed with industry as NATO’s first all-in-one prototype for planning, designing, and exploiting data. Early trials show remarkable results. TALOS has captured 4,500% more data than any previous #DynamicMessenger exercise, setting a new benchmark for how the Alliance collects insights, improves interoperability, and drives faster capability development.

NATO Pushes Innovation from Concept to Reality: NATO’s Innovation Continuum keeps turning bold ideas into tested solutions that strengthen the Alliance’s technological edge. At GLOW 2025, one of the phases of the Innovation Continuum, allied experts, industry, and academia refined 70 emerging solutions and conducted four major operational experiments, ranging from countering glide bombs to safeguarding undersea infrastructure. By connecting innovation directly to operations, GLOW highlights that Digital Transformation is not only about new technologies but also about integrating, testing, and sharing data-driven solutions that ensure NATO can adapt at speed and scale.

Discover open positions at NATO Allied Command Transformation that invite you to contribute to NATO’s mission. For more information and to submit your application, please visit NATO Jobs Search Portal.

• Staff Officer (Concept Development Analysis & Digital Enablement Lead) – apply before October 13, 2025
• Resource Programme Manager (Capability Development) – apply before October 14, 2025
• Senior Engineer (Federated Interoperability Requirements) – apply before October 20, 2025
• Requirements Manager (Federated Interoperability) – apply before October 20, 2025
• Senior Interoperability Delivery Manager – apply before October 20, 2025
• Section Head (Training Technologies) – apply before October 20, 2025
• Requirements Manager (Interoperability Verification and Validation) – apply before October 20, 2025
• Analyst (Interoperability Verification and Validation) – apply before October 20, 2025
• Engineer (Interoperability Verification and Validation) – apply before October 20, 2025
• Section Head (Security Policy) / Deputy Branch Head – apply before October 20, 2025
• Staff Officer (Industrial Security) – apply before October 20, 2025
• Section Head (CIS Security) – apply before October 20, 2025

Mark your calendars for upcoming NATO Allied Command Transformation events:

Innovation Continuum SHINE (Experimentation/Demonstration) October 13 – 17, ISTANBUL, TURKEY

Digital Backbone Experimentation (DiBaX) 2025 October 27 - November 7, RIGA, LATVIA

NATO-Industry Forum November 4 – 6, BUCHAREST, ROMANIA

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