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New Army Strategy Calls For 5G, Emerging Tech To Enable Future ‘Smart’ Bases

By Matthew Beinart

Monday, December 14th, 2020

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New Army Strategy Calls For 5G, Emerging Tech To Enable Future ‘Smart’ Bases

The Army on Monday released a new installations strategy that calls for bases of the future to serve as “smart” platforms that harness 5G and advanced communications capabilities needed to enable multi-domain operations. “We envision at ‘end state’ that each Army installation will be both a ‘platform’ of mission specific capabilities as well as an active node within a broader ‘constellation’ of installations connected across the Army enterprise,” officials wrote in the strategy. Officials said the new plan to outline…

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