In 2012, fifteen NATO
Nations came together signing the AGS Capability Procurement Contract to begin
creating an innovative core capability, instrumental for NATO’s future
capability readiness. Since then, all five AGS NATO RQ-4D Phoenix aircraft were
designed, developed, tested, and have landed in their permanent Italian home.
With the delivery of the aircraft complete, NAGSMA has turned its focus towards
delivering a successful handover, having already delivered two aircraft, two
Mission Operations Support Operational Elements, two Transportable General
Ground Stations (TGGS) and two Mobile General Ground Station (MGGS) to the NATO
AGS Force. That would not be possible without the hard work and dedication of NAGSMA
and its resilient staff. Despite the many challenges, the NAGSMA team continues
to achieve milestones in its mission to provide NATO with this highly complex
multinational state-of-the-art technology with NATO’s SACEUR declaring the AGS
system an Initial Operational Capability on 1 February 2021, which has
officially been announced by the NATO’s Secretary General on the margins of the
NATO Defence Ministerial meeting on 17/18 February 2021 (https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_181534.htm?selectedLocale=en
)