NEST is a multi-domain enhanced vigilance activity, which demonstrates responsive employment of high-end maritime forces commanded and controlled by NATO. This dynamically executed activity is conducted several times a year and NEST 25-1 is the 1st iteration in 2025.

Griffin Lightning is a Multinational Corps Northeast (MNCNE) scheduled tactical level exercise that trains all NATO Forces Structures (NFS) MNCNE Operational Control and reinforcement units in executing the Regional plan.  It includes nested national plans for the MNCNE AOO within the Baltic Sea Region, within multi-domain, and multi sale tactical operations against a peer-adversary contesting NATO in peace and crisis.

Dynamic Mongoose is a maritime exercise to exercise submarine warfare and Anti-submarine warfare (ASW) war-fighting for submarine, ASW surface units and maritime patrol aircrafts in order to conduct sea control or sea denial related naval tasks in preparation for future collective defence and crisis response operations.

Dynamic Messenger 25 is a NATO Maritime Command sponsored annual collaborative LIVEX designed to test and exercise the use of Maritime unmanned Systems (MUS) (autonomous surface vessels, underwater vessels and aerial vehicles).

Exercise to maintain the level of proficiency Electronic Warfare (EW) and Anti-Ship Missile Defence (ASMD) in Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 assigned units when not committed to current NATO  and NATO Response Force (NRF) Operations.

Cyber Coalition is NATO’s flagship annual collective cyber defence exercise and one of the largest in the world. It is planned and conducted by Allied Command Transformation under the governance of the Military Committee.