BACKGROUND
The 2014 invasion of Crimea and recent training exercises near the Baltics have demonstrated Russia’s ability to deploy troops across borders at speed. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) needs to mobilize 20 nations in response to a crisis; however, this mobilization is not sufficiently fast, in part, because there is no common picture of the factors affecting supply chain. Most information about the supply chain exists in disparate, unclassified sources. Synthesizing the data would allow NATO logisticians to better plan the safest and fastest routes on air, land, and sea to transport supplies and adjust during a crisis.
CHALLENGE
Develop a way for NATO logistics officers to synthesize publicly available information in order to plan the fastest and safest supply routes when mobilizing troops.
LIMITATIONS
– NATO nations have various levels of interest in sharing information
– Different NATO nations might be more or less interested in deploying resources in response to certain threats
– Risks of consolidating information in one place
Blog Posts
3/1/18
This is a test blog post.