This year will keep the tradition as the cap of CATE 2007 held on 5 to 7 May in the Brno exhibition centre shall house twelve special conferences or seminars. This family of special events offers floor for the Czech and foreign experts to meet and discuss. It has firmly occupied a strong position among the scientific conferences arranged for and held by the Czech military forces and under the auspices of the Ministry of Defence leading officials as a rule. Once the Czech Republic has been a NATO member country it has entered the NATO/PWP list of events being open to the NATO members as well as to partner countries. Technically, CATE is a place of meeting for military and defence industry experts. The high level of the conference agenda is guaranteed by the University of Defence.