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JFCOM Prepares For Empire Challenge ’11

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Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

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By Ann Roosevelt Planning is already under way for next years Joint Forces Command (JFCOM) Empire Challenge (EC)--the intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) interoperability demonstration, a command official said. The concept development conference has been held and, by the end of this week, there will be an Empire Challenge 2011 capabilities call posted on FedBizOps, according to Air Force Col. Jacqueline Walsh, director of the Joint Intelligence Operations Center at JFCOM, at the 10th annual C4ISR Journal Conference in Washington,…

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