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Picatinny Arsenal Opens Homeland Defense Testbed Emergency Operations Center

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Friday, May 2nd, 2008

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Officials at Picatinny Arsenal, N.J., today host a ceremony and ribbon-cutting for the grand opening of the Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center's (ARDEC) Homeland Defense Testbed Emergency Operations Center. The center will serve as a developmental battle lab, providing warfighters and first responders with interoperable, world-class decision-support technologies to meet the 21st century security and civil-support challenges. Scheduled to begin operations in mid-year, the 7,000-plus square feet testbed EOC will consist of more than 40 permanent operator workstations, arranged…

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