US report delivers wake-up call for CAS training
Successful CAS requires ‘detailed planning, seamless communications and effective training’, according to a recent report from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO).
The report (released last month) studied blue force tracking and training; it highlighted the DoD ‘has actively worked to address identified shortfalls in the CAS mission’ since 2000. One of the results of these DoD studies has been the goal of automating the CAS process through digitally aided CAS (DACAS).
The aim of DACAS is to allow ‘ground forces to communicate certain information digitally to improve the speed of transmissions and accuracy of data, and to mitigate the risk
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