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Army Expectations High This Year For Network Capabilities

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Friday, April 9th, 2010

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By Ann Roosevelt HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.--The Army's effort to build network capabilities by integrating increasingly maturing software and hardware are coming to life here at Boeing [BA] facilities. "We have some high expectations...over the performance we saw last year," Lt. Col. Luke Peterson, program manager Network Systems in Program Executive Office Integration (PEO I), told reporters during a briefing here Wednesday at the secure Building 49, which houses network integration labs. Peterson works here to develop network capability as part…

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