Principal C4ISR Analyst – BMD & IAMD Study

Spektrum supports apex purchasers (NATO, UN, EU, and National Government and Defence) and their Tier 1 supplier ecosystem with a wide range of specialist services. We provide our clients with professional services, specialised aerospace and defence sales, delivery, and operational subject matter expertise. We are looking for personnel to join our team and support key client projects.

Who we are supporting 

The NATO Communication and Information Agency (NCIA) is responsible for providing secure and effective communications and information technology (IT) services to NATO's member countries and its partners. The agency was established in 2012 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

The NCIA provides a wide range of services, including:

• Cyber Security: The NCIA provides advanced cybersecurity solutions to protect NATO's communication networks and information systems against cyber threats.
• Command and Control Systems: The NCIA develops and maintains the systems used by NATO's military commanders to plan and execute operations.
• Satellite Communications: The NCIA provides satellite communications services to enable secure and reliable communications between NATO forces.
• Electronic Warfare: The NCIA provides electronic warfare services to support NATO's mission to detect, deny, and defeat threats to its communication networks.
• Information Management: The NCIA manages NATO's information technology infrastructure, including its databases, applications, and servers.

Overall, the NCIA plays a critical role in ensuring the security and effectiveness of NATO's communication and information technology capabilities.

The program

Assistance and Advisory Service (AAS)

The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) is NATO’s principal C3 capability deliverer and CIS service provider. It provides, maintains and defends the NATO enterprise-wide information technology infrastructure to enable Allies to consult together under Article IV, and, when required, stand together in the face of attack under Article V.

To provide these critical services, in the modern evolving dynamic environment the NCI Agency needs to build and maintain high performance-engaged workforce. The NCI Agency workforce strategically consists of three major categorise's: NATO International Civilians (NIC)'s, Military (Mil), and Interim Workforce Consultants (IWC)'s. The IWCs are a critical part of the overall NCI Agency workforce and make up approximately 15 percent of the total workforce.

Role ID – 2025-0136

Role Background

To strengthen the Alliance through connecting its forces, NATO Communication and Information Agency (NCIA) delivers secure, coherent, cost effective and interoperable communications and information systems in support of consultation, command and control and enabling intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities, for NATO, where and when required. It includes IT support to the Alliances’ business processes (to include provision of IT shared services) to the NATO HQ, the Command Structure and NATO Agencies.

The Ballistic Missile Defence Programme Office (BMD PO), as part of the NCIA, ensures the harmonized planning, implementation, deployment, evolution and support of the BMD capability, in a way that satisfies the operational requirements and minimizes the military risk, taking into account the NATO political, economic and schedule requirements and using the most suitable industrial and technological solutions. The Programme Office is the procurement and implementation body of NCIA, charged with the effective planning, execution, delivery into service, evolution and through-life logistic support of NATO’s and assigned national and BMD systems.

In this context, ACT POW BMD project is looking for a team of expert contractors specialised in IAMD and BMD engineering domains and ready to contribute the IAMD study. In depth operational knowledge and prior experience of NATO BMD mission and its Battle Management Command, Control, Communication and Intelligence, BMC3I systems is required to work on the study

Role Duties and Responsibilities

• The team of resources will apply C2 engineering, IAMD and BMD knowledge together with NCIA project team and will regularly engage with operational user community.
• The team of resources will hold Principal C4ISR Engineer (C4ISR-E) skill set.
• The size of the team is determined by the supplier.
• The team of resources will provide support services and deliverables as follows:
  • Leading an operational study to investigate and document impact of emerging concepts to the NATO Integrated Air and Ballistic Missile Defence (IAMD) and the NATO Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) mission.
  • Capturing lines of development needs in the framework of DOT_LPFI.
  • Analysing the BMD architecture and NATO C3 Taxonomy; and identifying initial set of tasks to align them for the future NATO IAMD.
  • Supporting BMD related operational user research (OUR) activities and user engagements that the ACT POW project team is doing with contractors’ BMD C2 technical domain knowledge.
  • Authoring and developing the study report on “impacts of emerging concepts to the NATO Integrated Air and Ballistic Missile Defence (IAMD) and the NATO Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) mission”.
• The Agency Point of Contact for the daily execution of the contract is the NCIA PM.
• The team of contractors shall carry out the specific tasks, as described in the tables below:
• WP1 - Impacts of emerging concepts to the IAMD and BMD Mission - Study 2025
  • The team of contractors will apply their extensive operational knowledge and prior experience of NATO BMD mission and BMC3I systems. Contractors will be the main experts for conducting the study and will document findings in a study report.
• WP2 - Impacts of emerging technologies to the IAMD and BMD Mission - Study 2026
  • The team of contractors will apply their extensive operational knowledge and prior experience of NATO BMD mission and BMC3I systems. Contractors will be the main experts for conducting the study and will document findings in a study report.

Essential Skills and Experience

• More than fifteen years international professional experience in NATO C4ISR systems engineering, integration and missile defence.
• Strong understanding of NATO joint operations and programmes, such as Bi SC AIS and BMD.
• Expert in NATO BMD architecture, requirement management, integration, scientific and technical report writing, testing, prototyping and experimentation.
• Hands-on experience with NATO C4ISR systems used in BMD architecture (NCOP, AirC2IS, TOPFAS, Intel-FS and ACCS).
• Actively participated in previous ACT POW studies, integration tests (such as BMD Ensemble Tests), experimentation and operational exercises, such as JPOW and CWIX.
• Previously conducted research and development studies on BMD related subjects.
• Strong background and involvement in NATO C4ISR system development and maintenance.
• Candidate must have the nationality of one of the NATO nations.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Experience with innovative and emerging technologies (artificial intelligence, machine learning, virtual reality, augmented reality, etc.) and their usage in training and user documentation.
• Prior working experience in an international environment comprising both military and civilian elements.
• Knowledge of NATO responsibilities and organization, including ACO and ACT.

Language Proficiency

• Business English

Education

• University degree in engineering or computer science.

Working Location

• Remote

Working Policy

• Off-Site

Travel

• Some travel to other NATO sites may be required

Security Clearance

• No Clearance required