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Lockheed Martin Pursuing DCGS-A Increment 2, Delivers Software

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014

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Lockheed Martin [LMT] will pursue Increment 2 of the Army’s version of the Distributed Common Ground System, (DCGS-A), according to a company executive. DCGS-A is the Army’s current system for intelligence information sharing, processing, operational use and storage. DCGS-A Increment 2 is the Army’s next phase of DCGS-A development. The Army is testing software developed by Lockheed Martin that the company says will help it sort through terabytes of intelligence data gleamed from manned and unmanned sources. This is part…

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