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Case Study - DEFENSE
NATO TIE26
NLR Marknesse, Netherlands
Selected as the primary C2 platform for NATO TIE26 Team BRAVO - coordinating 13 nations and 46 sensor-effector nodes in a live counter-UAS exercise.
- 13
- nations in Team BRAVO
- 46
- sensor-effector nodes fused
- NCIA
- SAPIENT certified
Challenge
NATO TIE26, part of the Layered Counter-UAS Initiative (LCX-I), required proving interoperable command and control across a 13-nation coalition - integrating and operating around 50 different sensor and effector systems in a live NATO interoperability exercise against a real Red Air counter-UAS challenge.
Solution
OVERWATCH served as the primary C2 platform for Team BRAVO, fusing 31 Fusion nodes and 15 Edge nodes (46 total) via SAPIENT protocol across systems from 13 countries. Full deployment ran on-premise, standalone LAN, with no external internet dependency.
Results
- SAPIENT Interoperability Certificate awarded by NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA)
- BSI Flex 335 v2 and STANREC 4869 compliant
- One of only a handful of C2 systems at TIE26 to achieve direct SAPIENT tasking of effectors
- Qualified OVERWATCH for BATT26 - Baltic Trust 2026 live operational field exercise in Latvia, August 2026
- 13 nations, 46 nodes fused into a single Recognised Air Picture under live operational conditions