Agatino has been in the industry since 1989, in different positions from Engineering, Research and Development, Business Development and CTIO, in Italy and in the USA.

Since 2003 he has been responsible for the definition and validation of complex net-centric architectures and C4ISTAR systems by using M&S techniques such as distributed simulation in support of CD&E (Concept Development & Experimentation) and Training in the military domain.

From March 2013 he is the Industrial Member of the NATO STO NMSG (NATO M&S Group) representing, until now, Italy in that context. Former Chairman of the NMSG (position hold from 2018 to 2020 - first time for an Italian to assume that position) and NIAG Liaison Officer (NLO), he is actually chairing the MSG-232 Study Group dedicated to “Establishing an M&S Ecosystem to support Multi-Domain Operations (MDO)”.

He has been promoting the use of M&S and related international simulation standards also through numerous presentations of M&S related papers to National and International conferences like IEEE, IT2EC, I/ITSEC, CA2X2 Forum.

He has twice been awarded the NATO STO Achievement Award: in 2014 for “C2 Capability Maturity Model” and in 2015 for MSG-131 Specialist Team on “Modelling and Simulation as a Service: New Concepts and Service Oriented Architectures”.

In the context of NexGen M&S NATO ACT Program he has been actively participating since the initial phase as M&S SME representing NMSG Community. Later in 2023 he was elected Chair of the SG-296 NIAG Study on NexGen M&S that produced a report delivered to the sponsor (NATO ACT)

He is a member of the EDA CapTech Simulation and is coordinating the Leonardo and Italian participation to the EDF project FEDERATES aiming at realizing the first European MSaaS Ecosystem.