The ASB, which reports to the North Atlantic Council (NAC), issues directives and makes general policy decisions to enable NCIO to carry out its work.

Its decisions on fundamental issues such as policy, finance, organization and establishment require unanimous agreement by all member countries.

In particular, Allies agreed to streamline the agencies into three major programmatic themes: procurement, support, and communications and information.

The reform aims to enhance efficiency and effectiveness in the delivery of capabilities and services, to achieve greater synergy between similar functions and to increase transparency and accountability.

[4] The NCI Agency's area of expertise and key projects range from missile defense to secure desktops:[5] NATO, led by the NATO Communications and Information (NCI) Agency, won the world’s largest live-fire cyber exercise, Locked Shields 2018 for the third consecutive year.