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Army Plans First Procurement Action Stemming From Network Integration Exercise

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

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The Army issued its first procurement action resulting from the Network Integration Evaluations (NIE) and Agile Process in a sources sought notice for a single-channel, vehicle-mounted radio, known as Soldier Radio Waveform (SRW) Applique. The next NIE takes place April-June. The service has already held two such events at White Sands Missile Range, N.M. NIEs are semi-annual evaluations to further integrate and mature the Army’s tactical communications network. It also is to accelerate and improve the way network technologies are…

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