HQ NRDC-ESP

Welcome address LTG García-Vaquero

NIEATT Seminar

NIEATT session

The event was attended by 180 civilian and military participants from 28 countries. All of them professionals from the information environment. Of particular note was the presence of personnel from NATO, the European Union, the United States European Command, military personnel from various countries, as well as representatives from the academic and business worlds. 

From 17 to 21 April, the NATO Information Environment Assessment Conference and Strategic Communication Activities was held at a hotel in the Valencian capital and at the Santo Domingo Barracks in Valencia.

The event was organised by NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Supreme Allied Command Europe (SHAPE), located in Mons, Belgium, and Allied Command Transformation, based in Norfolk, Virginia, United States. The Joint Staff of the Spanish Armed Forces and the NATO Rapid Deployable Corps Headquarters Spain (HQ NRDC-ESP), based in Bétera (Valencia), hosted its execution.

The event consisted of two parts. In the first, a combined working group developed ideas on how to transmit and give relevance to Strategic Communication in the framework of NATO military operations, where each country presented its point of view. Subsequently, there was a sharing of procedures and the use of the tools available to carry out the assessment of the information environment, as well as to analyze its trends and future needs. In the second (the so-called "Tiger Team” for the Information Environment Assessment), a series of conferences were held, through which the participants were informed of the current state of NATO's tools, as well as the trends in this field.

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 dimension in today's world which "...is growing in relevance day by day and it is something we can confirm when we look at current conflicts". The Lieutenant General wished all attendees a very productive meeting and encouraged them to take advantage of the occasion to enjoy the city of Valencia.

Spain, a benchmark in innovation in the field of information for Alliance members.

This type of meeting is held annually, and for Valencia it is the second of its kind in recent years.

HQ NRDC-ESP is one of the ten corps entity headquarters of the NATO Force Structure.Spain's commitments to the Atlantic Alliance through this HQ require it to be constantly adapting to new security challenges in a dynamic and constant environment, to the evolution of doctrine in allied armies and to new conceptual developments that arise in the Alliance framework, being a benchmark in everything related to the Information Environment Assessment in the NATO Force Structure.