Developing state-of-the-art software solutions for cloud and edge computing is a major strategic objective of NATO, which will contribute to maintaining coherence and unity in a world dominated by competitors that permanently test the resilience of member states in the digital field, Romania's Defence Minister Angel Tilvar said on Tuesday, according to the Defence Ministry (MApN).
He signed, on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Washington DC, a Letter of Intent for the Allied software for Cloud and Edge (ACE) services, under which Romania joins a multinational project for the development of NATO's digital infrastructure.
According to MApN, the high-visibility project is one of the objectives of NATO's Strategy for the Implementation of the Digital Transformation Process, a document approved at the Vilnius Summit in 2023, designed to provide key building blocks of the Alliance-wide Digital Backbone.
Romania is thus joining 21 other NATO countries in a common effort to accelerate the process of adopting the cloud model in order to ensure services that benefit the Romanian armed forces and other NATO forces deployed on the soil of the NATO member states.
By developing and implementing allied software solutions necessary to ensure cloud computing and edge computing services or interfaces with national systems, the ACE project would lead to minimising security risks, ensuring high interoperability and secure scalable services, integrating them into an architecture that will improve operational efficiency by ensuring unified communications and enabling seamless sharing of data across land, air, maritime, space, and cyberspace domains of operation.
The ACE project and the other projects planned to be carried out under NATO's strategy for the implementation of digital transformation would speed up NATO's efforts to implement deterrence strategies, command-control concepts and the concept of multi-domain operations.
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