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Coast Guard Leveraging Navy OA Efforts To Boost Commonality, Interoperability

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Thursday, February 12th, 2009

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The Coast Guard is looking to leverage off of the Navy's open architecture efforts, not only to improve commonality between the two sea services, but to push affordability and enhance mission capability, a Coast Guard official said. Conceptually it makes a great deal of sense, Capt. Joe Vojvodich, Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) acquisition program manager, told sister publication Defense Daily in a recent interview. "The things that we want to leverage, and the things we…

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