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DISA Teams Participated In Major February European Command Exercise

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2017

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U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) teams participated in a major European Command (EUCOM) exercise earlier in February, the agency said Tuesday.Teams from DISA Europe, the Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization (DITCO) Europe, and Data Center Europe all joined Exercise Austere Challenge 2017 (AC-17), a biennial flagship exercise of European Command meant to exercise the pertinent aspects of EUCOM’s mission, to provide communications and cyber security operations support.DISA Europe operated from multiple locations in Germany during the exercise including the Joint…

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