【9月7日】看軍聞學英語

■泰戈爾

原文：

NATO is setting up a marketplace where alliance members can shop for counter-drone systems - a pilot project within a broader push by the organization to speed up procurement and help countries adopt new technology more quickly.

The alliance has invited companies to pitch counter-unmanned aerial systems, or C-UAS, by mid-May, and will pick 18 systems in the next one to two months, said Claudio Palestini, NATO head of innovation and technology adoption, in a video briefing with reporters on Monday. The goal is to have contracts in place “by the summer” so nations can start to procure via the marketplace.

With the pace of drone innovation in Ukraine measured in weeks, NATO wants to help member countries move on from requirement-based procurement to a mechanism based on challenges and use cases, a methodology Palestini called "very fitting" for some autonomous systems such as aerial drones, unmanned ground vehicles and C-UAS.

"When we buy phones or laptops, we don’t go to the suppliers with the requirements of them, but we go to the market." Palestini said.

中譯：

北約正在建立一個「市集」，讓聯盟成員國可以在此選購反無人機系統—這是一項試點計畫，目的在於使會員國得以加快採購速度，並幫助各國更迅速地採用新技術。

北約創新與技術採用主管帕萊斯蒂尼在週一的記者視訊簡報中表示，聯盟已邀請各公司在5月中旬前提交「反無人機系統」（C-UAS）方案，並將在未來1到2個月內選出18套系統。目標是在「入夏前」完成合約簽署，以便各國開始透過該市集進行採購。

鑑於烏克蘭戰場上無人機創新的速度是以「週」來計算，北約希望幫助成員國從傳統的「基於規格需求」採購，轉型為基於「挑戰與使用案例」的機制。帕萊斯蒂尼稱這種方法「非常適合」某些自主系統，例如空中無人機、無人地面車輛和反無人機系統。

「當我們購買手機或筆記型電腦時，我們不會帶著規格去要求供應商生產，而是直接去市場上挑選。」帕萊斯蒂尼說。

- 關鍵軍語 -

※procurement：軍事採購

※counter-unmanned aerial systems：反無人機系統