Resources Event-Trace Descriptions (NSV-10c) are used for moving from the initial systems design to the next level of detail, to help define a sequence of system interactions, and to ensure that each participating system or human role has the necessary information it needs, at the right time, in order to perform its assigned functionality.

NSV-10c provides a time-ordered examination of system data elements exchanged between participating systems (external and internal) or human roles, as a result of a particular scenario or situation. Each particular scenario or situation may reflect system-specific aspects or refinements of critical sequences of events described in the NATO Operational View.