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Army Demand For Open Architecture Systems Growing, But Much Work Still Ahead

Valerie Insinna

Wednesday, November 4th, 2015

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Army Demand For Open Architecture Systems Growing, But Much Work Still Ahead

As technologies develop at a quicker pace than ever before, it will be critical for the Army to invent open architecture weapons, computers and equipment that can be quickly upgraded with new software and components, but the service still is challenged in making such systems a reality, an Army official said Wednesday.Adversaries are working to overcome the U.S. military’s technical edge, and the service will not be agile enough to react if it remains tethered to the stovepiped, hardware-based systems…

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