Located at the Eindhoven Military Air Base, in The Netherlands, the Movement Coordination Centre Europe (MCCE) is an organization established to address the shortage of Strategic Lift (air and surface). By providing a multi-national coordinating body to optimize efficiency, throughout the full spectrum of movements and transportation, the main purpose of the MCCE is to provide cost saving alternatives for member nations.

The Air Transport and Air-to-Air Refueling Exchange of Services (ATARES) system provides a balance of all services exchanged between nations, accounting for individual mutual support without any requirement for equivalent financial transactions. Specifically, ATARES is an IT system that allows quick exchange of information among participating nations on Air Transport and Air-to-Air Refueling (AT/AAR) requirements and availability and facilitates cash-free exchanges of services between participating nations. The ATARES is like an account whose currency is expressed in C-130 Equivalent Flying Hours (EFH), exchanged among nations. Such operations produce savings for its member nations participating in these operations, by coordinating their transport requirements and matching those requirements to existing capacity, thus making the most efficient use of that capacity (for example, avoiding half-full flights or empty return flights), whether owned or leased.

The primary goal of the present project is to provide an upgraded version of the ATARES Web-Based Accounting Software Tool. The tool will be built from the ground up, making use of the good aspects of the previous tool, while improving it. As presented in this proposal, newer and more recent technologies will be used in order to provide better performance, security and a wider range of current and future functionalities.
The main driver behind the composition of the team was to ensure a good knowledge of the existing tool, complemented with in-depth IT skills in the applicable technologies and procedures. All team elements have several years of experience in the relevant domains, have several technical and functional certifications and have participated in projects where the required knowledge for this project was also needed.