Deadline Date:
Thursday 6 November 2025
Requirement Title:
AirC2 Domain Integration Validation and Verification (IV&V) Activities
Location of Performance:
NCIA, The Hague, Netherlands with TDY to various locations throughout NATO.
Cost Not to Exceed:
BASE NTE 2,28,870 Euros; Optional as per demand: NTE 369,720 Euros per Quarter
Period of Performance:
BASE: 1 January 2026
Evaluation Methodology:
Lowest Priced Technically Compliant
Required Security Clearance:
NATO SECRET (or higher)
Please do NOT
apply for any NATO contract positions unless you meet ALL the following criteria:
- Current National or NATO SECRET clearance
- Nationality of one of the NATO member countries
- Current work visa for the specific location if applying for an in-country position
Any applications that do NOT meet all the above - and do not CLEARLY show these on the CV - will be deleted.
Overall Project Scope
- The NCIA has been established with a view to meeting to the best advantage the collective requirements of 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.
- The AirC2 Centre delivers planning, development, procurement, implementation and In-Service Support of NATO authorised AirC2 capabilities across the Alliance and bilaterally in the European Nations of the Alliance, satisfying the operational requirements, assuring the coherence, integrity and interoperability of the involved NATO and national systems and sub-systems. In doing so, the AirC2 Centre contributes to NATO's Integrated Air and Missile Defence operations and continuously evolves NATO authorised systems and services to empower seamless, resilient and adaptable NATO operations in a multi domain environment.
- The Business Assurance Functional Group ensures that the AirC2 centre delivers high-quality products and services to its customers and stakeholders. The Functional Group is responsible for the direction, management and execution of the activities related to the Verification, Integration, Operational Validation and Acceptance of the Systems and capabilities delivered by the AirC2 centre. In addition the Functional Group defines, establishes and maintains a mission assurance framework, in line with the NCI Agency's policy and directives, in order to provide quality and safety assurance.The Business Assurance Functional Group has requirements for subject matter experts to plan and execute verification and validation activities on behalf of the NCIA in support of the Air and Missile Defence programmes by delivering the followings described in the next paragraph.
Deliverables:
All of the defined deliverables can be addressed as briefings, reports, designs (proof of concept demonstrators) or specifications using a well-defined NCIA-specified format, or where required Jira and/or TestRail format.
All deliverables are to be peer reviewed within the deliverable cycle. Input and guidance will be provided by NCIA in written form or/and during the targeted review meetings.
During the period of performance a Delivery Acceptance Sheet shall be provided to the Purchaser. The Template is provided in the Annex B.
The Purchaser will confirm the acceptance by signing Delivery Acceptance Sheet.
System Test Plan
To establish the deliverable, the team will:
Test Case / Procedure
To establish the deliverable, the team will:
Test Run /Logs
To establish the deliverable, the team will:
System Test Report
To establish the deliverable, the team will:
Problem/Observation Reports
To establish the deliverable, the team will:
Test script workbooks (mission card catalogue)
To establish the deliverable, the incumbent will:
Technical Reports
To establish the deliverable, the incumbent will:
The deliverables described above will be provided, within the period of performance, in an incremental manner in support of the following AIRC2 planned projects and activities, at a discretion of the purchaser:
1- Multi-Site testing of multiple AIRC2 sites;
2- NATO Tactical Data Link Interoperability Test (NTDLIOT) preparation;
3- On-going patch Validation and automatic testing at various AIRC2 sites as well as within the ISS organic family (e.g. ASIM, ICC, NISP MASE etc);
Period of Performance:
The services are to be provided from 1 January 2026 through 31st March 2026, with quarterly options up to 31st December 2029.
Security Clearance:
The provided team of contractors should be able to cover any required AirC2 activity related to this contract. This requires a mix of technical and operational knowledge, that can be provided by one or more persons.
The following expertise and knowledge is considered essential for the operational work of the contract:
All deliverables are to be peer reviewed within the deliverable cycle. Input and guidance will be provided by NCIA in written form or/and during the targeted review meetings.
During the period of performance a Delivery Acceptance Sheet shall be provided to the Purchaser. The Template is provided in the Annex B.
The Purchaser will confirm the acceptance by signing Delivery Acceptance Sheet.
- The Contractor shall participate in a kick-off meeting within one working week after the signing of this contract.
- This can be a virtual meeting executed via electronic means using Conference Call capabilities;
- During the kick-off meeting, the Contractor will be assigned to one or more AirC2 projects and provide and discuss a plan for executing the tasks under this statement of work. Purchaser and Contractor will discuss the plan and amend where appropriate;
- The Contractor will provide email minutes containing, at least decisions and actions decided during the meeting.
- The Contractor shall participate in regular status meetings, either in-person (where possible) or via electronic means using Conference Call capabilities.
- The rhythm for these meetings will be decided at the kick-off meeting;
- The Contractor will initiate these meetings and provide email minutes containing at least decisions and actions decided during the meeting.
- The Contractor shall support Integration, Verification, and Operational Validation activities at national sites acting in the role of an AirC2 Centre Test Engineer during the period leading up to and including site-roll out activities as well as provide their support to any planned on-site Operational Demonstrations.
- The following specific deliverables are expected from this statement of work:
- D001: System Test Plan (to be delivered periodically as required to support the activity under test;
- D002: Test Case / Procedure (to be delivered as required to support the specific activity under test for the period needed;
- D003: Test Run / Logs (Test logs generated by the statff are archived and provided to support the event/activity;
- D004: System Test Report (to be delivered for each event supported);
- D005: Problem/Observation Reports (these reports will be manually entered into JIRA and their specifc counts will be further reflected in the test reporting;
- D006: Test script workbooks (mission card catalogue is developed and maintained to support the various test set-ups and execution details used by the Operator and maintained in a master repository for future use;
- D007: Technical reports (generated as required and directed).
System Test Plan
To establish the deliverable, the team will:
- Support development of test plans for NATO AirC2 systems and on-going Rollout test activities for product in the maintenance phase;
- Development of scenarios and database in cooperation with peers and operational crew from existing AirC2 sites;
- Maintain test milestones, system test plans and other test artefacts in the agency provided TestRail system;
- Perform related activity within this scope as deemed appropriate and required to establish the deliverable.
Test Case / Procedure
To establish the deliverable, the team will:
- Support development of Test Cases / Procedures / checklists, cheat sheets and aides to support test execution;
- Keep this library up to date including the Regression test catalogue, load and cycle and interface tests;
- Adapt and update files used during development and operational testing, at the NAMF and on-site as required;
- Dry run and validate test procedures / cases in the NAMF;
- Support continuous development of a library of Master Event List/Master Incident List scenarios and any other ad hoc test scenarios in cooperation with peers and operational crew from AIRC2 sites and keep this library up to date;
- Dry run and validate candidate AirC2 test scenarios;
- Perform related activity within this scope as deemed appropriate and required to establish the deliverable.
Test Run /Logs
To establish the deliverable, the team will:
- Dry-run test procedure / case or exploratory testing;
- Execute them or observe the execution;
- Record results in TestRail or in an ITL (Independent Test Log) / Master Test Log (MTL)) execution;
- Record, develop and execute the test charter in the case of exploratory testing;
- Perform related activity within this scope as deemed appropriate and required to establish the deliverable.
System Test Report
To establish the deliverable, the team will:
- Contribute to the drafting of test reports;
- Evaluate the validation status of all requirements within their assigned operational or technical area of expertise;
- Report all defects and deficiencies related to their assigned requirement set observed during test activities, cover them in the report paragraph on their assigned area of expertise, and have them added to the relevant backlog;
- Follow up on the resolution of these observations and assist in the validation;
- Prepare the Test Summary needed for the various site rollout test activities
- Evaluate the validation status of all requirements within their assigned operational or technical area of expertise including PTR coverage matrix or VCRI ;
- Perform related activity within this scope as deemed appropriate and required to establish the deliverable.
Problem/Observation Reports
To establish the deliverable, the team will:
- Report and document all defects and deficiencies related to the assigned requirement set observed during test activities;
- Address them in the report as it relates to their assigned area of expertise,
- Ensure insertion into the relevant backlog;
- Follow up on the resolution of these observations and assist in the validation;
- Perform related activity within this scope as deemed appropriate and required to establish the deliverable.
Test script workbooks (mission card catalogue)
To establish the deliverable, the incumbent will:
- Support development of a library of Mission/Test Cards, checklists, cheat sheets and aides to support test execution;
- Keep this library up to date;
- Adapt files used during development and operational testing during in factory SW development and testing and site roll-out;
- Dry run and validate test scripts and mission cards in the existing Maintenance Facility and required NATO and/or national sites;
- Perform related activity within this scope as deemed appropriate and required to establish the deliverable.
Technical Reports
To establish the deliverable, the incumbent will:
- Produce technical reports, within its area of expertise, related to any Air and Missile Defence system;
- Participate in project milestones, briefings and any related stakeholder support activity required to complete the report;
- Perform related activity within this scope as deemed appropriate and required to establish the deliverable.
The deliverables described above will be provided, within the period of performance, in an incremental manner in support of the following AIRC2 planned projects and activities, at a discretion of the purchaser:
1- Multi-Site testing of multiple AIRC2 sites;
2- NATO Tactical Data Link Interoperability Test (NTDLIOT) preparation;
3- On-going patch Validation and automatic testing at various AIRC2 sites as well as within the ISS organic family (e.g. ASIM, ICC, NISP MASE etc);
Period of Performance:
The services are to be provided from 1 January 2026 through 31st March 2026, with quarterly options up to 31st December 2029.
Security Clearance:
- Staff employed by the Contractor on this contract require a valid NATO SECRET security clearance
- The expected classification level of the deliverables is NATO RESTRICTED. However, in some particular circumstances it might be decided that a part of the deliverables will be classified as NATO SECRET.
- The execution of duties require the contractors to access classified information up to NATO SECRET
The provided team of contractors should be able to cover any required AirC2 activity related to this contract. This requires a mix of technical and operational knowledge, that can be provided by one or more persons.
The following expertise and knowledge is considered essential for the operational work of the contract:
- 6 years extensive and progressive expertise in the duties related to this contract;
- Proven knowledge of, and practical experience in, modern test engineering and test management methods and paradigms;
- Proven knowledge of, and practical experience in, the operational or technical use of Air C2 systems supported by NCIA for areas such as system administration, C2 Resource Management, Force Management, Airspace Management, Air Mission Control or Surveillance;
- 6 years extensive and progressive expertise in the duties related to this contract;
- Proven knowledge of, and practical experience in, modern test engineering and test management methods and paradigms;
- Hands on experience in automation and Git (Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins).
- Hands on experience with Kubernetes (AKS, OpenStack), Unix and/or Linux system administration (RedHat) and good understanding of networking protocols. ✓ 3 years of scripting (bash, Python) or/or programming experience;
- The following expertise and knowledge are considered desirable for this contract:
- Experience interpreting and/or capturing business and user requirements through use cases and developing test cases accordingly;
- Recent experience in planning and execution of validation activities within large-scale C2 exercises;
- Knowledge of NATO Tactical Data Links and other military or civilian interoperability standards for messaging and data exchange related to air traffic;
- General up-to-date knowledge of computer system architectures, systems security, client/server, LAN/WAN and network concepts, test techniques, Database Management Systems (DBMS) and data management concepts;
- Instructor background;
- Validated ICC, CSI, MASE or other related product experience with C2 nodes within the NATO Area of Responsibility (AOR);
- Recent experience in planning and execution of validation activities within large-scale C2 exercises.