Customers

PfP Partners

PIMS Partner Countries

PIMS considers eleven PfP Partner countries to be important customers. Through connectivity, communications capabilities that enable access to co-developed content of key topics, PIMS serves PfP defense ministries and defense-related institutions.

PIMS supports connectivity requirements of the PfP Partner elements located at the Partnership for Peace Coordination Cell (PCC), SHAPE, Mons, Belgium.

PIMS cooperation with PfP Partners are based on bi-lateral Memorandum of Agreements between the United States and the Partner country.

Event and Exercise Planners, Participants

Under the umbrella of PIMS support to PfP Partners, PIMS is often called upon to deliver IT equipment, technicians, connectivity, and information sharing/knowledge management capabilities for interoperability exercises. Therefore, PIMS aims to satisfy the planners requirements and enable participants to benefit from the conference, event, or exercise. Click on the following links to learn more about PIMS event support capabilities and how to request PIMS support.

NATO / PfP Knowledge Network

PfP Consortium

Through PIMS Research and Development (R&D) funding, PIMS works with institutions that develop useful information and knowledge for the NATO/PfP audience. PIMS provides groups such as the PfP Consortium of Defense Academies and Strategic Studies Institutes and the PfP Training Centers with collaborative communications technology with the goal of disseminating the resulting lessons, expertise and knowledge to the PfP Partners as effectively as possible.

Communities of Interest Participants

PIMS provides a collaborative environment and tools for individual participants to contribute to discussions on topics critical to NATO/PfP. Typically, a community of interest brings together practitioners, officials, experts from a number of NATO/PfP topics. These groups, hosted at members.pims.org and accessible by personalized logins/password enable for unclassified information sharing on topics that interest the groups' members. Current groups include:

Groups

  • Defense Policy and Strategy (DPS)
  • Democratic Control of Forces (DCF)
  • Response to Terrorism (RTT)
  • Professional Personnel Structure
  • Peacekeeping Operations (PKO)
  • Border Security and Control (BSC)
  • Language Training (LNG)
  • Military Education, Training & Doctrine (TRD)
  • Consumer Logistics (LOG)
  • Defense Planning and Budgeting and Resource Mgt (DPB)

Interested in joining a group? Register for a PIMS account here.