Spring 2025 Issue

For the Spring 2025 Issue, selected papers have been taken from the STO Events listed below.

2024 NATO Operations Research & Analysis (OR&A) Conference

This special edition contains a selection of the papers that were presented at the NATO Science & Technology Organization (STO) Research Symposium titled 18th NATO OR&A Conference (STO-MP-SAS-192) held at the Residencia Militar Castañón de Mena, in Málaga, Spain, from 4 to 6 November 2024.

This event, overseen by the STO System Analysis and Studies (SAS) Panel, brought together 140 participants from the NATO OR&A community, representing NATO commands and agencies, national defence analysis and research organizations, centres of excellence, academia, and industry to discuss the conference theme “Collaboration to enable military advantage in an unstable world.” This theme highlighted NATO’s strength in its unity. Effective collaboration solves problems, builds trust and, ultimately, achieves defence objectives. Many contributions at the conference called attention to successful examples of OR&A collaboration among alliance members.

Space Sensors and Space Situational Awareness - SET-SCI-297

This special edition contains a selection of the papers that were presented at the NATO Science & Technology Organization (STO) Research Symposium titled 18th NATO OR&A Conference (STO-MP-SAS-192) held at the Residencia Militar Castañón de Mena, in Málaga, Spain, from 4 to 6 November 2024.

This event, overseen by the STO System Analysis and Studies (SAS) Panel, brought together 140 participants from the NATO OR&A community, representing NATO commands and agencies, national defence analysis and research organizations, centres of excellence, academia, and industry to discuss the conference theme “Collaboration to enable military advantage in an unstable world.” This theme highlighted NATO’s strength in its unity. Effective collaboration solves problems, builds trust and, ultimately, achieves defence objectives. Many contributions at the conference called attention to successful examples of OR&A collaboration among alliance members.

Novel Materials and Manufacturing in Military Vehicle Design - AVT-384

The AVT-384 Research Specialist Meeting (RSM), exploring novel materials and manufacturing in military vehicle design, was held in Koblenz, Germany, in October 2024. It brought together experts from NATO countries to address the issues and potential gains of breaking down barriers and tightly integrating component/system design, material development/design, and manufacturing processes for military vehicle development. The goal of the meeting was to identify the state-of-the-art, as well as areas of future research, to enable tighter collaboration between component/system design, materials, and manufacturing, resulting in more effective capability to the warfighter (defined as greater performance/$) at an accelerated rate of delivery.

Reference: STO-SAS-ORA-2024
SET-SCI-297
AVT-384

Operations Research and Analysis (OR&A) - SAS-ORA-2024

Space Sensors and Space Situational Awareness

Novel Materials and Manufacturing in Military Vehicle Design