Army Displays 100 Technologies

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Army Displays 100 Technologies
August 08, 2008
Army News Service|by Jennifer Chupko

FORT DIX, N.J. – Cutting-edge technologies for both land and air missions were viewed at Fort Dix Tuesday at the C4ISR On-the-Move Event 08, culminating four months of high-tech testing.

C4ISR stands for Command, Control, Communication, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance, and that organization began the testing in April in collaboration with industry partners and the Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center , or CERDEC, headquartered at Fort Monmouth, N.J. Technicians from the labs rolled onto Range 1 at Dix this week to demonstrate technologies supporting future force capabilities.

The systems displayed are still under assessment, C4ISR officials said, adding that initial results of the four-month test will be published in November.

The exercise tested or assessed more than 100 systems. Those systems were augmented with virtual and constructive entities to represent the network that the Army will field in the future, said Lt. Col. William Utroska, product manager for C4ISR OTM.

After the final assessments are completed, the product is then put into a “System of Systems,” Utroska said. SoS is explained as “a structure of one entity working into a collaborative entity.”


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uhc comment: Here's a brief overview of FCS --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Combat_Systems