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Brits Net Gains Through Air-Land Interface Lessons Learned

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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

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By B.C. Kessner ROME--The British military has made great strides delivering network enabled capabilities (NEC) to forces working at the Air-Land Interface (ALI) and has identified key steps toward additional interoperability, a Ministry of Defense (MoD) official said here Wednesday. "It has been the UK experience that unless you do this for real yourself, then you probably can't do it," Brigadier Geoffrey Dodds, commander of the MoD's Joint Air Land Organization, told attendees at Defence IQ's Network Centric Warfare (NCW)…

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