The Polish Ministry of National Defence and the NATO Communications and Information (NCI) Agency signed an agreement intensifying cooperation between the ministry and the Agency’s Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) Program Office and Services, the NCI Agency said on Thursday.
This agreement was signed by Robert Kupiecki, Poland’s Undersecretary of State, and Koen Gijsbers, NCI Agency General Manager, at the margins of the NATO Ministers of Defence meeting in Brussels on Thursday.
The agreement will support NATO BMD development. It focuses on confirming interoperability between Polish and NATO BMD capabilities, largely through information exchanges and testing, the NCI Agency said. The agreement specifies the testing regime and measures for ensuring interoperability.
The agreement also confirms that the integration of Polish systems will first cover Polish radars with BMD capabilities, offered by Poland to NATO BMD.