The Ministry of Defense of the Sultanate of Oman has announced the signature of the Certificate of Final Acceptance for a contract covering the expansion and modernization of EADS' existing Joint Command, Control, Communication, Computers & Information (C4I) system, OFEQ2000. This follows on from the signing of the outline contract worth €5.7 M in May 2006. The system is installed in the headquarters of Oman's Joint Air Force, Navy and Army – on land and sea. The basis of OFEQ2000 is EADS' Joint Command, Control and Information System (JoCCIS).
The contract modifications to OFEQ2000 include the expansion from five to 12 headquarter stations of the armed forces and from 41 to 120 work positions, an update for the NATO Multilateral Interoperability Programme (MIP) Command & Control Information Exchange Data Model (C2IEDM), a replication of all operational data between the headquarters, an MIP Data Exchange Mechanism, the enhancement of user management according to the NATO J1-J6 staffing standard and a general situation display in a Common Operations Picture which integrates the air and maritime situation elements. Together, these modifications provide the customer with an improved real time decision making capability for its armed forces.
The deployment of OFEQ2000 in the Joint Exercise ‘Jeera Dazeera (Peninsula Shield),’ in which all six Gulf states of the Gulf Cooperation Council are participating, provides an ideal opportunity to introduce the EADS system to the participating Gulf states in an operational environment. These states currently have been offered similar EADS systems based on JoCCIS.
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