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Army

FCS Common Control Node Phase II Nears Completion

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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

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By Ann Roosevelt ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md.--Early next month, the Future Common Control Node, a simulation, software and development center for the Army's major modernization program, the Future Combat System (FCS), will be up and running as part of the programs national network, according to service officials. "Phase II will be completed in the next two weeks," Corde Lane, chief of the Netcentric Division at Aberdeen Test Center here, told the first reporters to visit the node March 14. The…

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