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Intel-Sharing System Begins Ops At Ramstein Air Base

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Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

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The Air Force successfully completed evaluation of Raytheon's [RTN] new Distributed Common Ground System at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, enabling operational use of the upgraded intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) system, the company announced last week. The network-centric upgrade to DCGS at Ramstein Air Base is an element of the Pentagon's initiative to enable seamless, real-time, multiagency intelligence sharing and collaboration. "The U.S. Air Force ran regular missions using the upgraded DCGS baseline over several weeks and concluded it was…

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