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DoD Announces Winning Foreign And Innovative Domestic Concepts For FY ’08

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Friday, December 21st, 2007

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An enhanced bomb rack for the F-16 fighter aircraft, new three-dimensional displays for visualization of the battlespace, and a more sensitive biological agent sensor are among the 29 promising domestic and foreign concepts that Pentagon officials have selected to evaluate starting in FY '08, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced Dec. 13. The concepts will be assessed under DoD's Foreign Comparative Testing (FCT) and Defense Acquisition Challenge (DAC) programs that the Office of the Secretary of Defense's (OSD's) Comparative Testing…

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