Björn Löfstrand
VP Product Interoperability at NATO Modelling and Simulation Group (NMSG)
Linköping, Sweden
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Top SchoolBjörn Löfstrand is a senior systems architect and product interoperability leader with over 30 years of experience designing distributed simulation and modelling & simulation (M&S) systems for defence and training. As VP Product Interoperability at BAE Systems OneArc (formerly Pitch Technologies) he combines deep standards expertise—HLA, FEDEP, DSEEP, BOMs and RPR-FOM—with hands-on delivery of service, training and integration projects. He chairs NATO MSG-223 and serves as a NATO M&S Member at Large, shaping international standards that make simulation systems more composable and future-proof. Known for translating complex interoperability requirements into practical federation designs, he has published widely (40+ papers) and mentors teams from code-level visualization tools to enterprise training systems. An early LISP/Java/C++ developer and Visual OMT lead, he brings rare continuity from low-level implementation to strategic standards leadership.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Natural Science, High School, Natural Science at Katedralskolan, SkaraMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Linköping University
English, Swedish, German
Github Skills (12)
dotnet9
dos8
wake-on-lan8
noaa7
meteorology6
entity6
system-identification5
implant5
synthetic4
ais4
kubernetes1
docker-compose1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
AMSP-04/NETN-METOC
Jul 2019 - Sep 2022
NATO Education and Training Network (NETN) Meteorological and Oceanographic (METOC) Module
Contributions:4 releases, 42 commits, 7 PRs in 3 years 2 months
trainingmeteorologynoaanato
AMSP-04/NETN-Physical
Nov 2019 - Mar 2024
NATO Education and Training Network (NETN) Physical Entity Module
Contributions:5 releases, 14 PRs, 40 pushes in 4 years 5 months
entitytrainingphysicalnato
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