2025-0352 Data Analytics Solution Project Support (NS) - MON 8 Dec

Deadline Date: Monday 8 December 2025

Requirement: Data Analytics Solution Project Support

Location: Wiesbaden, DE

Full Time On-Site: Yes (See 5 PRACTICAL ARRANGEMENTS)

Time On-Site: 100%

Period of Performance: 2026 Base: As soon as possible but not later than 12 January 2026 – 31 December 2026, with the possibility to exercise following options:

• 2027 Option: 01 January 2027 – 31 December 2027

• 2028 Option: 01 January 2028 – 31 December 2028

Required Security Clearance: NATO SECRET

1 PROJECT SPECIFICS

Background

The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA) has been established with a view to meeting the collective requirements of some or all NATO nations in the fields of capability delivery and service provision related to Consultation, Command & Control as well as Communications, Information and Cyber Defence functions, thereby also facilitating the integration of Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, Target Acquisition functions and their associated information exchange.

NCIA is dedicated to acquiring, deploying, and defending communication systems for NATO’s political decision-makers and Commands. It operates on the frontlines against cyber-attacks, collaborating closely with governments and industry to prevent future debilitating attacks. NCIA plays a crucial role in maintaining NATO’s technological edge and ensuring the collective defence and crisis management capabilities of the Alliance. In pursuit of our mission, we require specialized advisory services to enhance our interim workforce capacity.

Introduction

In response to the North Atlantic Council (NAC) decision to establish NATO Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine (NSATU), a Deployable Communications and Information System (DCIS) asset was delivered to Wiesbaden DEU to enable personnel to plan and conduct security assistance and training activities in support of Ukraine.

Within the NCIA Chief Technology Office, the Exploiting Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (EDS&AI) Team has as primary goal to ensure that Big Data and AI can be used to make better and faster decisions. In leveraging the volume of big data, EDS&AI team aims to turn data overload into decision dominance.

Inside NATO, leaders in different functions need support for their decision making. EDS&AI brings the expertise to exploit the vast and varied data available for extracting insights, and we achieve that by using both cloud computing and the Agency’s high performance computing sandbox.

The EDS&AI team provide the core data science skills and technology needed for big data analysis and AI.

The EDS&AI team applies innovative technology to data whenever it is not possible to extract value with conventional approaches.

Problem Statement

• NSATU lacks the proper tools to collect, collate, analyse, and portray NSATU and stakeholder data that are necessary to enable data-informed decision-making in a timely manner.

• Although KOROVAI is one of the main pillars for data extraction, NSATU is struggling to collect data from the multiple data sources (excel sheets, SkyBlue, EDMS, Common Drives, etc.) to analyse information (movement logistics, training, LENs operations, FLOe’s activities, ammo stockpiling, equipment ETRs, nation pledges, etc.) to establish the minimum required level of visualisation and dashboards to enable informed decisions.

• Although GBR is assisting NSATU with in-kind national solutions (Palantir), the provided solution is still limited in functionalities (e.g. limited to charts presentation mode only) due to network domain difference and accessibility.

• NSATU lacks the analytics tools to transition from its current “crisis mode” reporting that is solely focused on feeding the Cooperation and Interoperability Groups (CIGs) with fragmented data into a “campaign mode” that will focus on establishing mid-term forecasting and projections. The transition will allow NSATU to not limit its analytics to descriptive products that can be interpreted differently, but also to exploit data to service further analytical requirements.

2 SCOPE OF WORK

The contractor will deliver TWO resources (One Senior Data Engineer and One Senior Data Analyst) that will provide comprehensive project support services for the NSATU Data Fusion Cell team located at Wiesbaden, Germany under the direction / guidance of the NCIA The Hague Exploiting Data Science & AI team and NSATU Data Analytics Project Management Team. The resources will support the following activities:

1. Data Engineering Activities:

Data engineering

• Designs and implements da