About

Who We Are:

The NATO Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Force (NISRF) is a multinational NATO Force established in mid-2015 as the NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance Force (NAGSF) and based in Sigonella, Italy.

The NATO ISR Force is a foundational component of NATO's Joint Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (JISR) structure. Since its establishment, NISRF has grown and developed steadily. With NISRF the Alliance now has extensive Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance capabilities at its disposal at the Sigonella Air Base in Sicily.

NISRF is equipped with the appropriate systems and personnel to receive collection and exploitation tasking, to plan and operate remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) and to act as a Federated Process, Exploitation, and Dissemination (FEDPED) Node for the Alliance. Once NISRF received surveillance and reconnaissance date from NATO, member nations and its own, its intelligence specialists can analyze it, exploit it, fuse it with other information from other data sources and produce intelligence products. With their Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) fleet of five RQ-4D "Phoenix" RPA's, NISRF is able to carry out radar reconnaissance and surveillance autonomously and independently of the weather, day and night - a unique capability for the Alliance.

Our Mission:

The NISRF mission is to conduct unified Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) operations in support of Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), NATO and member nation requirements.

Our Operational Focus Areas

Our Components:

NISRF is divided into three main components:

NISRF Operations Wing

NISRF Support Wing

NISRF Training Center

Our Main Facts:

NISRF is NATO’s ISR hub, providing high-quality intelligence products to NATO decision-makers and member nations at the speed of need.
NISRF enables rapid, persistent and long-range surveillance of land and maritime areas in all weather conditions.
NISRF provides deployed commanders with enhanced domain awareness across their respective areas of responsibility and operations.
It also contributes to a wide range of missions, including the protection of ground forces and civilian populations, border security, maritime security, counter-terrorism, crisis management and humanitarian assistance in the aftermath of natural disasters.
All five NATO-owned RQ-4D Phoenix remotely piloted aircraft are based at NISRF’s Main Operating Base in Sigonella, Italy.