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NATO NCI Agency, 1 German Netherlands Corps, Sign Strategic Partnership

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Tuesday, March 18th, 2014

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NATO NCI Agency, 1 German Netherlands Corps, Sign Strategic Partnership

HQ 1 GNC --A multi-national High Readiness Forces (Land) Headquarters (HRF(L) HQ). It is deployable within 20-30 days to command corps-sized land forces.

The NATO Communications and Information (NCI) Agency March 14 signed an agreement on working arrangements and a multi-year program of work with the 1 German Netherlands Corps (1GNC) in the first example of re-use of NATO Afghanistan investments to boost nations’ readiness for the elite NATO Response Force (NRF). The multiyear project will provide the 1GNC with a mission network, fully loaded with core and functional services, including the implementation of Land Command & Control Information Systems (LC2IS), the agency…

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