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Lockheed Martin Views Its Work On ARCI As Beneficial To Its CANES Bid

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Friday, April 24th, 2009

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By Geoff Fein Lockheed Martin [LMT] believes its work on the Navy's Acoustic Rapid Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) Technology Insertion (ARCI) effort has it well positioned for the Consolidated Afloat Network Enterprise Services (CANES) competition currently underway to outfit surface ships with a single common network. When the Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (PEO C4I) issued its draft request for proposals (RFP) for CANES earlier this month, the organization referred to ARCI as the model the CANES…

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