NATO STANAG 4162

Abstract

The requirements for a fully interoperable, theatre-wide identification capability which covers all aspects of the air, land and maritime battle space are set out in the Military Operational Requirement (MOR) for identification in NATO. This document stipulates that the primary objective of identification is to maximise operational effectiveness while minimising total friendly and neutral casualties due to enemy action and fratricide. In order to minimise errors in identification and hence reduce the probability of fratricide, the MOR requires to combine and process all identification data available from all types of sensors, including co-operative, non-co-operative and C2 systems. <br>This requirement is met by the Identification Data Combining Process (IDCP), an automated data combining method providing recommendations to the operator and which combines identification data on detected objects from multiple sources.