Secure Digital Military Mobility System

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The EU currently faces numerous geopolitical crises in its vicinity which require swift and effective mobilisation of its military forces. Diversity in national processes and fragmentation in used tools pose a significant obstacle for rapid provision of authorisation to allow the movement of military personnel, units, material and supplies. The European Commission recognising its significance developed and presented in 2018 its Military Mobility Action Plan (2018) and called on its MS to work towards alleviating most of the obstacles that currently apply lengthy approval times to even the simplest MM requests. At the same time MM comprises a key cooperation field between EU and NATO highlighting the need for alignment between NATO and EU procedures in MM approvals. The project Secure Digital Military Mobility System (SDMMS), will develop a secure, ICT-based solution that will facilitate direct and secure exchange of information between nations requesting and approving any military movement. The SDDMS will be implemented in a federated architecture over multiple instances where each nation can host its own instance allowing for customised configurations, security and data management requirements. Interoperability is a key aspect of the system and will be designed in a manner that allows extensibility and interfacing with other systems at EU, NATO or national level. In the foreseen implementation the SDMMS systems addresses all Functional Requirements of the call and all Initial Common Requirements (ICR) developed by the contributing Ministries of Defence (MoDs). As a jointly-developed system for the whole EU, SDMMS contributes to the Union’s strategic autonomy and the reduction of fragmentation between military systems of MS, introducing significant savings as the system can be used as-is without the need of further software development at national level. Significant savings also emerge from the common maintenance, update and upgrade of the system