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UCAS OA Efforts Reaping Early Cost Savings

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Monday, June 29th, 2009

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By Geoff Fein As personnel at Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) are finding that even in the early introduction of Open Architecture (OA) into the Unmanned Combat Air Systems (UCAS) program, they are realizing cost savings, a program official said. "What happened was we originally had our architecture being developed over a legacy system that somewhat emulated what you see in...today's Link 16, where everything is sort of time division, everything is scheduled and everything has to be preplanned," Glenn…

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