On 5 December 2019, the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) awarded six contracts for the Boeing - ABILITI Consortium* (USA), General Atomics (USA), Lockheed Martin (USA), Airbus (Germany), L3Harris Consortium* (UK), and MDA (Canada), after a successful international bidding process, under a NATO Security Investment Programme (NSIP). This is a significant step that will enable the development of high-level technical concepts for NATO's future surveillance and control capabilities.