Jon Luchford

NATO C3 Agency

With roots going back over 50 years, the mission of the NATO C3 Agency is to support NATO through the seamless provision of unbiased scientific support and common funded acquisition of Consultation, Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) capabilities. Customers NC3A serves the NATO Alliance, its constituent nations and agencies. It also has a smaller, but important role to play serving nations and entities with which NATO has close ties. It is a non-profit organization and 100% customer-funded, meaning its customers are its only source of operating revenue. Track Record The NC3A is a valued and effective arm of the Alliance, delivering products and services across the entire C4ISR life cycle, from system concepts and requirements to fielded systems and other operational assistance. It maintains an integral and supporting presence in all of NATO's theatres of operation, including the Balkans, Afghanistan, and Iraq. It implements key systems that the leadership of NATO needs in order to perform political consultation and military functions of command and control: terrestrial and satellite communications; the automated information systems and applications that use these media to exchange information; analytical and NATO expertise underlying all our R&D and acquisition projects, and much more.