Our vision:  

Everything we do is geared toward increasing SACEUR's & NATO leaders' understanding of the threats to the Euro-Atlantic area and NATO Operations so that the Alliance can generate peace through planning and executing effective deterrence and defence. We do this by leveraging NIFC's unique talent, capacity, and capabilities within ACO in an intellectually agile, hyper-collaborative, flattened structure and streamlined processes to provide SACEUR and ACO with timely, relevant, and accurate intelligence.    

Our History:  

The NIFC was conceived by General James L. Jones, USMC, (SACEUR Jan 2003 - Dec 2006) in November 2004. He proposed that the U.S. sponsor the organisation as the Framework Nation. General Jones received approval by the U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to negotiate the NIFC Memorandum of Understanding in 2005. The MOU was approved by NATO nation signatories on 5 October 2006 and the NAC activated the NIFC as a NATO Military Body with International Military Headquarters Status on 18 October 2006. The NIFC achieved full operational capability (FOC) in December 2007. The organisation's purpose was to provide an objective and robust intelligence organisation to augment and fill potential gaps in ACO's intelligence support to NATO operational and strategic requirements for out-of-area operations, (e.g. NATO operations in Afghanistan, Kosovo, Gulf of Aden, and later Libya) and NATO Response Force (NRF) operations. The NIFC was established in the United Kingdom with the U.S. as the framework nation.     

Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE)
NATO Special Operations HQ (NSHQ)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Allied Air Command (AIRCOM)
Allied Land Command (LANDCOM)
Allied Maritime Command (MARCOM)