STM, one of the leading technology companies in the Turkish defense industry, is preparing to deliver new contributions to a project of critical importance for NATO’s command, control, and information management infrastructure. Having already developed numerous projects for NATO under the leadership of Türkiye’s Presidency of Defense Industries, the company has now undertaken a significant role in the modernization of the NATO Integration Core (INT-CORE) project and in equipping it with new technological capabilities. Within the scope of the contract signed in 2024 with the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency), STM aims to enable stronger integration among the alliance’s information systems.

The INT-CORE project is designed to process data coming from different information systems across NATO under common standards and deliver that data rapidly to relevant units. In this way, it helps improve situational awareness on the battlefield, accelerates command-and-control processes, and makes decision-making mechanisms more efficient. Supporting the dissemination of critical operational data such as the common operational picture, battlefield information, mission data, and command-and-control inputs is among the project’s core functions. In this respect, INT-CORE serves as a major backbone of NATO’s ongoing digital transformation.

Among the new technological capabilities to be added to the project, the “lake diver” system stands out as a clear example of STM’s strength in data processing and big data analytics. Large volumes of information collected within a data lake structure will be analyzed through this new capability and transformed into meaningful operational context. The system will be able to search, filter, and model large data pools, then present critical information to military decision-makers through map-based visualization tools. This capability is expected to be highly valuable in managing information overload in complex operational environments and in helping commanders interpret field developments more accurately.

STM General Manager Özgür Güleryüz emphasized that the company is proud to add another achievement to its international successes in the fields of security and defense. He noted that STM had previously provided engineering, maintenance, and support services for the INT-CORE project for five years, and that the experience gained during that period is now being used to bring both modernization and new competencies to the system. He also underlined that INT-CORE has been actively used during CWIX, NATO’s largest digital interoperability exercise, and that the new version of the system will also be deployed this year.

STM’s cooperation with NATO is not limited to INT-CORE alone. The company previously served as a technical solution partner in NATO’s strategic-level Air Command and Control and Missile Defense Information System, known as AirC2IS. In addition, STM has begun developing software solutions for NATO’s intelligence infrastructure under the INTEL-FS2 project after winning two separate tenders focused on intelligence processes. These applications, developed using agile software development methods, are being used in NATO headquarters’ intelligence workflows. By achieving seven separate exports to NATO in the field of decision-support systems, STM has further demonstrated Türkiye’s growing international standing in defense software and systems integration.

This latest development shows that STM is not only a defense industry company, but also a strategic technology provider capable of delivering high value-added digital solutions to the international security architecture. The next-generation data analytics and integration capabilities to be brought to the INT-CORE project are considered likely to make a direct contribution to NATO’s future operational effectiveness.