AFCEA West 2012: US Army expands radio networks
Following two recent successful rounds of US Army exercises for its Mobile Ad hoc Interoperability Network Gateway (MAINGATE) radio system, Raytheon has outlined what it will be demonstrating during the Network Integration Evaluation (NIE) phase 12.2.
Speaking to Shephard at a pre-AFCEA West briefing on 18 January, Jeff Miller, director of Raytheon Network Centric Systems' Tactical Communication Systems, said the system ‘outperformed competitors’ during the NIE 12.1 at Fort Bliss, Texas, in November and the Army Expeditionary Warrior Experiment (AEWE) at Fort Benning, Georgia, in October.
‘We have not seen a formal report yet [from NIE]. The biggest thing we
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