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PIMS Capabilities

Beyond Desktop

PIMS designs and delivers technical solutions with aim of increasing partner interoperability, integration, efficiency and transparency in order to prepare PfP Partners for future coalition operations.

 

A specific focus is to build partner capacity related to technology while focusing on priority topics such as Defense Institution Building, Defense Reform, and Response to Terrorism.

 

For over a decade, PIMS has provided a secure distributed Intranet to link PfP Partners with US and NATO Colleagues.

This capability reaches "beyond desktop" to include hardware, software, peripherals, satellite bandwidth/local ISP rental as well as the logistics, IT support, network administration to keep the network functioning. Additionally, PIMS extends these capabilities to the site of interoperability exercises and conferences so that they function efficiently and participants reap the most benefit.

Since the European Office of SPAWAR System Charleston took over management of PIMS in 2004-5, the technical branch upgraded the Internet-based collaborative and communications capabilities available to PfP Partners and Exercises. Now, through the PIMS Members, the PfP Training Centers, and the PfP Consortium and other Powered-by-PIMS websites, communities of interest can easily engage in discussion on priority topics, harmonize policies and procedures, and search for expertise in password protected environments

These collaborative environments assist participants to share and capture knowledge that can be tagged and searched in ways not previously possible. Through this collaborative platform participants have access to integrated instant messaging clients, voice calling and can collaborate on projects through blogs and threaded discussions.


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