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Northrop Grumman Validates Advanced Gateway’s Open Architecture With High Capacity Backbone Integration

By Matthew Beinart

Tuesday, August 17th, 2021

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Northrop Grumman Validates Advanced Gateway’s Open Architecture With High Capacity Backbone Integration

Northrop Grumman [NOC] announced Tuesday the company has successfully validated the open architecture design of its advanced gateway system offering with the integration of a new L3Harris Technologies [LHX]-developed High Capacity Backbone (HCB) capability, which the company called a critical step in furthering network technology required for the Pentagon’s Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) effort. The demonstration to rapidly integrate the HCB capability with Northrop Grumman’s gateway system was set up in less than a week, according to…

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