West 2013: Team for DCGS-N to be created
The analysis of alternatives (AoA) for Increment 2 of the US Navy’s Distributed Common Ground System-Navy (DCGS-N) is due to be completed and government-led team will be created this year to continue development.
Speaking at the AFCEA 2013 conference, Capt Scott Heller, programme manager at the navy’s PMW 120 Battlespace Awareness and Information Operations programme office, said: ‘For DCGS-N Increment 2 we are just wrapping up the AoA now.’
Subject to the completion of an efficiency review the completion of the AoA would be a ‘starting gun’ for the creation of new team, Heller said.
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