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FCS Successfully Completes Role In Air Force JEFX 2008

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Friday, April 25th, 2008

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By Ann Roosevelt The Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) deems successful it's ability to shorten the sensor-to-shooter link in its portion of the Air Force's Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment (JEFX) 2008, program officials said. "By using portions of the FCS network during a real operational setting Joint Service staff were enabled to share situational awareness between ground and air assets," Maj. Troy Crosby, assistant project manager (Joint) FCS Network Systems Integration, said. "This near real time awareness between Army and…

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