Within NATO, a standardization agreement (STANAG, redundant: STANAG agreement) sets out processes, procedures, conditions and conditions for common military or technical procedures or equipment between Alliance member countries. Each NATO state ratifies a STANAG and implements it within its own military. The aim is to provide common operational and administrative procedures and logistics so that one military member state can use the business and support of another military member. STANAGs also form the basis of technical interoperability between a large number of communication and information systems (CIS) essential to NATO and the Allied operation. Allied Data Publication 34 (ADatP-34) NATO Interoperability Standards and Profiles, covered by STANAG 5524, maintains a catalogue of relevant standards for information and communication technologies. Among the hundreds of standardization agreements (the total number was just under 1300 in April 2007[updated]), are those relating to ammunition, card markings, communication procedures and bridge classification. A STANAG is a normative document that records an agreement between several or all NATO member states – which has been ratified at the national approved level – in order to implement a standard in whole or in part, with or without reservation. NATO contains all the terminology of the NATO agreement as well as all formally “cancelled” terminology. In addition, NATO`s old terminology is populated by a former NATO glossary. This process is expected to be completed in early 2019. A selection of NATO electronic publications available in Adobe portable format (PDF), official Alliance texts, the treaty and its protocols relating to Partnership for Peace documents, as well as full texts of all NATO ministerial communiqués since 1949.
NATO archives provide decommissioned and publicly available information on the NATO website. Selection of the main official texts categorized by type. The multimedia library holds more than 18,000 books and subscribes to 155 magazines. The collection focuses on international relations, security and defence, military issues and current global affairs. The multimedia library also has an extensive collection of photographic and video materials. NATO Libguides are web-based search guides, which contain publicly available information on the internet, which have been hand-extracted by staff from the NATO multimedia library. The LibGuides were created for topics of interest to the NATO mission. Far from being a complete collection, you offer a good starting point for your research.
StanAGs are published in English and French by NATO`s Standards Office in Brussels, NATO`s two official languages.