The Coalition Warrior Interoperability eXploration, eXperimentation and eXamination, eXercise (CWIX) concluded the 2013 Main Planning Conference (MPC) on February 1. This year's four-day conference was hosted by Denmark in the city of Slagelse.

CWIX is an annual NATO Military Committee-approved event aimed at improving interoperability for the Alliance.  Allied Command Transformation (ACT) provides guidelines and management to the programme, while NATO and Partner Nations sponsor interoperability capabilities with specific objectives.

"The MPC is the time to make decisions," said CWIX Deputy Director, Kell Hvolbol. "Engineers will now have to agree on the complexity of the testing for this year and will have to make commitments on their participation."

"One unique testing opportunity this year is to test the draft NATO Future Mission Network (FMN) Profile," said Lieutenant Colonel Viorel Pletea, staff officer at NATO Consultation, Command and Control (C3). "The US is very eager to test their US Mission Partner Environment (MPE) Profile against the draft NATO FMN Profile."

Overall, ten NATO organizations and eighteen nations attended this year's MPC.

The next scheduled events for CWIX are the final planning conference for CWIX 2013 scheduled for March 12-15, then the CWIX Execution Visitors Day and VIP Day. The Visitors Day will take place on June 11-12 and VIP day will follow on June 13. All events are hosted at Joint Force Training Centre (JFTC), Bydgoszcz, Poland.

For more information contact CDR Knut Behrends, CWIX Director, knut.behrends@act.nato.int, 1-757-747-4133 or Kell Hvolbol, CWIX Deputy Director, kell.hvolbol@act.nato.int, 1-757-747-3652