Cihangir AkÅŸit
Emin Cihangir AkÅŸit (born July 16, 1953) is a former Director of the NATO NATO Standardization Agency, Standardization Agency (NSA). AkÅŸit had a forty-year military service, where he earned seventeen badges before retiring in 2008 as a major general. He is known for his establishment of total quality management and change management that modernized the Turkish Armed Forces. AkÅŸit is also a noted author, having written three historical fiction novels, as well as articles for several military magazines and journals. Career Military career AkÅŸit began his military career in 1974 when he graduated the Turkish Military Academy. From there, he held several positions within Turkey's School of Infantry, Tuzla Piyade Okulu. AkÅŸit graduated from army staff college in Istanbul in 1984 after serving as a platoon leader and commander of various company (military unit), companies, battalions, regiments and division (military), divisions for the Turkish Army. He then served on staff and in ...
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NATO Standardization Agency
The NATO Standardization Office (NSO) (former NATO Standardization Agency, NSA; French: ''Bureau OTAN de normalisation'') is a NATO agency created in 1951 to handle standardization activities for NATO. The NSA was formed through the merger of the Military Agency for Standardization and the Office for NATO Standardization. During the Agency Reforms, the NSA was transformed to the NATO Standardization Office (NSO) on 1 July 2014, headed by the Director of the NATO Standardization Office (DNSO). The NSO is composed of military and civilian staff that was created to be responsible for standardization for both the Military Committee and the North Atlantic Council It also provides standardization to NATO members military forces, with the goal of interoperability between member nations. It is also the responsibility of the NSO to initiate, administrate over and promulgate a Standardization Agreement (STANAG). NSO headquarters is located at the main NATO headquarters at Boulevard LÃ ...
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