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Boeing Tactical Communication Network Readies For Flight Tests

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Thursday, April 9th, 2009

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By Ann Roosevelt Boeing [BA]'s successful demonstration of its Tactical Communications Network for the Australian Defence Force (ADF) leads to the next step--flight tests, a company official said. "These net-ready technologies are ready," Tom DuBois, Boeing Rotorcraft Systems architect and Technical Fellow for Avionics and Software, told Defense Daily in a recent interview. "They may not address 100 percent of the U.S. government Global Information Grid requirements, but they're in a form where they can be used in the near…

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