Important training activity for the Afghan Security Forces in the framework of the activities of the mission in Afghanistan
This morning a Kabul, at the Headquarters of the Resolute Support Mission (RS) in Afghanistan, the ceremony for the delivery of diplomas to the Officers of the Afghan National Defense Security Forces (ANDSF) who have completed i Spectrum Management courses for the development of the Afghan Ministerial Spectrum Management Office (MSMO).
The training activity - considered of strategic interest, since the management of the Radiofrequency spectrum is recognized by the RS Command, as one of the "Main Economy-drivers" for the Country - was aimed at providing the basic and advanced notions for improvement of communications between the Security forces Afghan. The 13 course-goers come from the Ministries of Defense, the Interior and the National Directorate of Security (the Afghan intelligence service).
The project, which is part of the activities of Train Advise Assist (TAA) of the Afghanistan RS mission, it was financed by Norway and but developed and led by an important Italian component that, in Afghanistan, is part of the International Sustainment - Information Communication Technologies (OS-ICT) and Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A).
Various civil and military authorities attended the ceremony, including Donald Yeske, Director of OS-ICT, Massimiliano Del Nista, qualified instructor of the NATO Communications and Systems School (NCISS) of Latina (Italy) and certified expert NATO Communications and Information Systems Agency (NCIA) on the subject of spectrum management and fiber optics and the Major of the Italian Army Alessandro De Luca, course project officer and member of the NATO-Afghan National Army Trust Fund Cell, unit of the CSTC-A.
The CSTC-A is the US-led multinational command, included in the RS mission, which, in addition to carrying out training, consulting and assistance tasks for local institutions and security forces, deals with the management of economic resources coming from Contributing countries.
The Italian advisors of Resolute Support, together with the colleagues of the other 41 Coalition Countries, continue to support the Afghan institutions through the implementation of projects aimed at building a stable Country, developing effective and sustainable security Forces and strengthening of the rule of law within the Afghan borders.