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