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Boeing Vigilare System Passes Factory Acceptance Tests

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Thursday, November 18th, 2010

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Boeing [BA] recently announced that Vigilare, the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Network Centric Command and Control System (NC3S), has passed its final factory and Tactical Data Link (TADIL) acceptance tests. The tests were performed at Boeing's Systems Integration Laboratory in Brisbane to prepare Vigilare for final integration at the Eastern Regional Operations Centre (EROC) at RAAF Base Williamtown, New South Wales, followed by site and operational testing. "The tests mark the final engineering release of the system and formally…

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