PREPARED FOR

PRESENTED BY

Modernising while remaining competitive –

The NSPA model

DSEI12 September 2019

Chief of Staff, NSPAMr Paul Hammond

NSPA Organisational Design

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PROCUREMENT

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

HUMAN RESOURCES

FINANCE

SUPPORT

FUNCTIONS

NATO AIRLIFT

MANAGEMENT

(NAM)

NSPA GENERAL MANAGER

SUPPORT TO

OPERATIONS

CENTRAL

EUROPE PIPELINE

SYSTEM

(CEPS)

1450 NATO International Civilians

(Approved positions)

NATO NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL (NAC)

NSPO AGENCY SUPERVISORY BOARD

BUSINESS UNITS

LIFE CYCLE

MANAGEMENT

Support to Operations

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Deployed team:

50 NSPA staff /

2525 contractor

personnel

• Base Support Services

• Catering Services

• Airfield Services

• Engineering Services

• Fuel

• Construction

• Equipment Support

• Transport and storage

• Medical Services

Afghanistan

Kosovo

Iraq

Mali

NSPA’s Role/Activities in Deterrence and Defence

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Vision

• No credible deterrence without credible

logistics

• Future logistic system: military and civilian

Current Engagement

• Rapidly Useable Enabling Contracts –

NATO

• Operational Logistics and Naval Logistics

Support Partnerships – Nations

• Enhanced Forward Presence, Very High

Readiness Task Force, NATO Response

Force

• Trident Juncture ExerciseConstruction

Services

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• NATO Logistics Stock Exchange

• Random Brokerage Services

• General Procurement & Shared Services

• Engineering & Construction

Trust Funds – NSPA as Executing Agent

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44 NATO Trust Fund Projects (€100M) since 1998

• Capacity building & training

• De-militarization & de-mining

• Ammo disposal & hazardous waste

• Georgia, Ukraine, Egypt, Mauritania, Moldova, Iraq…

85 CSTC-A* Projects (US$700M) tasked

• Mi-17

• Uniforms

• Medical supplies

• Infrastructure

• Training*Combined Security Transition Command –

Afghanistan

Life Cycle Management

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Cradle-to-Grave

• Concept development

• Alliance Future Surveillance and

Control

• Acquisition

• Multi-Role Tanker Transporters,

Armoured Personnel Carriers …

• In Service Support

• 32 Support Partnerships

• Disposal

32 Support Partnerships

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Aviation & Unmanned Aerial Systems

Multinational Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT)

Fixed-Wing Aircraft

Helicopters

Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS)

Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)

Land Combat

Land Combat Vehicles (LCV)

Night Vision & Optoelectronics (NVO)

Artillery Rocket & Missile Systems (ARMS) BOXER

Surveillance – Command & Control

Alliance Future Surveillance and Control (AFSC)

Air Command and Control System Level of Operational Capability 1

Ground-Based Air Defence (GBAD)

AN/FPS-117 Radar

RAT 31 Radar

RADAR

Missiles (Missile systems) & Ammunition

PATRIOT

STINGER

HAWK

SIDEWINDER

AMRAAM

Air-to-Surface Missiles

Land Combat Missiles (LCM)

Ammunition Support

Specialised

Strategic Airlift Interim Solution (SALIS)

Common Item Materiel Management (COMMIT)

Naval Logistics Support (NLSP)

Demilitarization, Dismantling & Disposal (D3)

Operations Logistics Support (OLSP)

Global Positioning System (GPS)

Multifunctional Information Distribution System (MIDS)

Cryptographic, Communications and Electronic (CCE) Equipment

NSPA Routing Hub (NRH)

NSPA Source File – Supporting Industry

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NSPA registry of capable global suppliers

Over 60,000+ vendors organized by specialty and registered

to do business with NSPA

Substantial cost/price history providing procurement insight

into fair & reasonable prices

Procurement

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“Rapidly Useable Enabling Contracts (RUECs)”

RUECs are pre-planned time and mission critical logistics,

infrastructure and medical contracts, at very high readiness, that can

be used by NATO and nations on operations and exercises.

Real Life Support (RLS)

Fuel Aeromedical Evacuation

Strategic Transportation

Central Europe Pipeline System (CEPS)

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Management of a NATO pipeline system:

• Largest pipeline system in NATO

• Integrated, cross-border pipeline and storage system

• Jet fuel (75%), diesel/gasoline/naphtha (25%)

• Military/commercial business model

• Non-military co-use with Military Priority Clause

NATO Airlift Management (NAM)

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Support to Strategic Airlift Capability (SAC)

• Three C-17s Boeing Globemaster aircraft

• Multi-national owned capability established in

2008

• NAM directly supports Heavy Airlift Wing (HAW)

12 SAC Nations - use of hours

• For national, NATO, EU & UN missions

• Pre-agreed allocation of annual flight hours

• Available for third party use via SAC Nation

sponsorship

Conclusions

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• NSPA provides an alternative solution for

acquisition and support

• Growing portfolio & satisfied customers

• Key enabler for NATO’s operations

• Executing Agent for Capability Delivery

• Projecting Stability Trust Fund Success

• NATO and EU Multinational Programmes