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JFCOM Coalition Interoperability Trials Aim To Improve Tactical Edge

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Friday, June 26th, 2009

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By Ann Roosevelt Host U.S. Joint Forces Command (JFCOM) today wraps up its Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (CWID), an annual global event that evaluates technologies to improve how militaries communicate and pass information with each other and understand their surroundings, officials said. " All the trials are looking at technology gaps...how does the U.K. system in Afghanistan talk to the U.S. Army system," Navy Capt. Kevin Ruce, CWID host combatant command lead, told Defense Daily. "If it doesn't exist, is…

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