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Submarine Learning Center Using ARCI Model To Get Training To Sailors

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Thursday, March 11th, 2010

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By Geoff Fein While the submarine program continues to rapidly insert commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) technologies to modernize the fleet, officials are also making sure the schoolhouses not only have the latest versions of equipment, but are providing the most up-to-date training to sailors. The Submarine Learning Center has turned to a model based on the Acoustic Rapid COTS Insertion (ARCI) program to provide training on modernized equipment to operators in real time as they are getting the systems, Capt. Kenneth Swan,…

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