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St Louis MO: A joint urban warfare scenario demonstrating command and control on the move provided the blueprint for this year's Boeing joint network-centric operations experiment.
The one-hour demonstration, conducted by Boeing Phantom Works and Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, linked nine Boeing sites and featured a mix of live and simulated platforms and systems from 17 programs.
As with previous Boeing NCO technology experiments, this year's event showed how recently-developed technologies can link fielded and future systems in a network to enhance U.S. military capabilities.
The purpose of the experiment was to show how “connecting everyone on the battlefield in a networked operational environment results in people making better decisions faster,” said Gary Fitzmire, Boeing Phantom Works vice president of Engineering and Information Technology. “We're looking to show three things