Albania takes part at Combined Endeavor 2011

PATCH BARRACKS, Stuttgart, Germany, Sep. 8 – Combined Endeavor 2011, a multinational command, control communications and computer systems exercise designed to build and enhance communications and network interoperability, will be held Sept. 9-22, 2011, in Grafenwoehr, Germany.
This year, 40 NATO and Partnership for Peace countries will participate in the annual exercise, including Albania.
The theme for this year is Coalition Information Dominance.
According to this year’s exercise director, Lt. Col. Brian Heberlie, “We have developed a new construct this year for operational assessment testing focusing on mission threads. As downrange operations have shown, focusing on mission threads highlights and drives critical information exchanges across command and control systems that are critical to coalition operations.”
First held in 1995, Combined Endeavor enhances collaboration between nations – especially through an interoperability guide of communications and network systems which has been used by participating nations as an electronic roadmap to respond to major military and humanitarian- relief efforts around the world like the 2004 Tsunami, 2006 evacuation of American citizens from Lebanon and NATO operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.