Adding local short description: "NATO-centred military coordination organzation", overriding Wikidata description "Multilateral Interoperability Programme (MIP)"
[[File:Multilateral Interoperability Programme Logo.png|250px|right]]The '''Multilateral Interoperability Programme''' ('''MIP)''') is an effort to deliver an assured capability for interoperability of information to support multinational, combined and joint operations. The MIP goal is to support all levels from corps to battalion. MIP's focus is on [[command and control]] systems. MIP is a consortium of 29 [[NATO]] and Non-NATO nations that meet quarterly to define interoperability specifications for the exchange information between their national Command and Control systems.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Bistarkey|first1=Devon|title=Network interoperability key to common operating picture|url=http://www.army.mil/article/161317/Network_interoperability_key_to_common_operating_picture/|accessdate=2 March 2016|agency=US Army|date=January 22, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=Babak Akhgar |author2=Gregory B. Saathoff |author3=Hamid R. Arabnia |author4=Richard Hill |author5=Andrew Staniforth |author6=Petra Saskia Bayerl |title=Application of Big Data for National Security|date=19 February 2015|publisher=Butterworth-Heinemann|isbn=9780128019733|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZPOcBAAAQBAJ&dq=Multilateral+Interoperability+Programme+%28MIP%29&pg=PA183}}</ref>
