HQ NRDC-ESP

Welcome address HQ NRDC-ESP Commander.

80 civilian and military experts at the conference.

The NATO Rapid Deployble Corps Headquarters Spain (HQ NRDC-ESP), with the support of the Spanish Joint Headquarters (EMACON), hosted the NATO Conference on the  Information Environment Assessment (NIEATT) in Valencia,  from May 3 to 5. The meeting was organized by NATO HQ, Supreme Allied Command Europe (SHAPE) and NATO Allied Command Transformation (ACT).

The meeting was attended by more than 80 civilian and military experts of different nationalities working in the information environment, including personnel from NATO, the European Union, the United States Command in Europe, military representatives from various countries, as well as personnel from the academic and business worlds. These three days have served to share the procedures and tools available to carry out the assessment of the information environment, as well as to analyze its trend and future needs.

During the opening session, Lieutenant General Fernando García-Vaquero Pradal, Commander of HQ NRDC-ESP, welcomed all the participants highlighting the crucial importance of the cognitive domain today.

This type of meeting is held annually, and for Valencia it is the second of its kind to be held in recent years, the previous one being the NATO Information and Communicators Conference held in 2017.