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Turkish defense company ASELSAN<\/a> has said its cooperation <\/a>with NATO<\/a> has expanded from procurement projects to a broader partnership covering air defense, communications, identification systems and standardization work.<\/p>\n In a statement on July 6, ASELSAN said its cooperation with the alliance began in the 1990s with the production of electronic components for Stinger air defense missiles.<\/p>\n The company said cooperation has since widened to include submarine communication station modernization, Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) systems and air defense concept studies.<\/p>\n ASELSAN said it has provided solutions in tenders by the NATO Support and Procurement Agency and the NATO Communications and Information Agency.<\/p>\n The company said its first communications contract with the NATO Communications and Information Agency marked an important step for Turkish defense technologies in international competition.<\/p>\n ASELSAN also said it had recently signed a framework agreement for its IDENTIA 4000I Portable IFF Interrogator after winning a NATO-related tender.<\/p>\n Deliveries to NATO countries are expected to begin in the coming months, the company said, adding that the agreement could support future IFF needs of alliance members.<\/p>\n ASELSAN said it was also among five companies selected by the NATO Support and Procurement Agency for NATO\u2019s Modular Ground-Based Air Defense Concept Stage.<\/p>\n Under the project, the company will work alongside Airbus, Lockheed Martin UK, Raytheon and Thales LAS on long-term studies related to NATO\u2019s air defense architecture.<\/p>\n ASELSAN said it has also taken part in more than 50 NATO working groups over the past three years.<\/p>\n The company participated in the NATO CWIX 2025 exercise with its air command-and-control systems and completed interoperability tests with allied systems, according to the statement.<\/p>\n ASELSAN said its KOCATEPE 100 product also passed Federated Mission Networking Spiral 4 compliance, while the company has taken part in REPMUS exercises focusing on maritime operational capabilities.<\/p>\n The company\u2019s activities in NATO member countries have also expanded through export deals, including a $410 million contract in Poland.<\/p>\n ASELSAN, which has subsidiaries in Poland and Romania, said it had signed major export contracts in recent years in electronic warfare, radar and communications.<\/p>\n The statement said cooperation with NATO was expected to grow in communications, command and control, counter-drone technologies, air defense components and UAV payloads.<\/p>\n ASELSAN technologies are also being used in security measures for the NATO summit in Ankara, according to the company.<\/p>\n The ROADGUARD system, deployed at key points in the capital, uses AI-supported sensors for license plate identification and facial recognition of people inside moving vehicles, the company said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANKARA Turkish defense company ASELSAN has said its cooperation with NATO has expanded from procurement projects to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4094,1252,7],"class_list":["post-6500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-aselsan","tag-cooperation","tag-nato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}