Director

     Colonel Orlin NIKOLOV, BGR-AF  

I. EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS:

- 1986 - 1991 - Military Academy “P.Volov”– Shumen, Bulgaria;

- 2001 - 2003 - National Defence College “G.S. Rakovski”-Sofia, Bulgaria;

- 2005 - Junior Staff Officer Course – Liptovski Mikulash, Slovakia 

- 2006 - Joint Specialized Operation Course in Joint Specialized Operation University – USA  

II. MILITARY CAREER:

- 1991 - 2096 – Senior Technical Officer – Air Defense Unit;

- 1997 - 1998 - Head of Technical Staff ;

- 1998 - 2001 - Head of Staff ;

- 2001 - 2003 - National Defence College;

- 2003 - 2005 - Head of Staff ;

- 2005 - 2007 - Deputy chief of National Center for Modeling and Simulations, Chief of AAR team;

- 2007 - 2008 - Assistant in “Doctrines and training programs” branch in Training Directorate in the General Staff;

- 2008 - 2010 - Senior Assistant in “Simulations” branch in the General Staff;

- 2010 - 2013 - Chief Expert in “Exercise and Training”, MOD; 

- 2013 - Chief of Capabilities Branch, CMDR COE. 

III. PROJECTS:

- Establishment and development of National Centre for Modeling and Simulation “Charalitza”;

- Establishment and development of Integrated System for M&S in MoD;

- Project Manager for acquiring systems and tools for E&T (JCATS, VBS2, DITS, JEMM, JPECT, JEST, other);

- Project Manager of project for Establishment and development of CMDR COE;

- Project Manager of project for Establishment of South Eastern Europe Education and Training Network;

- Project Manager of project for Investigate and assess M&S Decision Making Support and Data Analysis platform for CMDR and Climate Change.