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Boeing’s Tapestry Solutions To Support U.S. European Command Training Exercises

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Friday, October 21st, 2011

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Boeing [BA] subsidiary Tapestry Solutions will support training exercises for the Army in Europe as part of a five-year, $59 million contract under the Joint Multinational Simulation Center's Battle Staff Training Contract. "Tapestry looks to being in the forefront of preparing our U.S. and multinational forces with some new innovative training," Sam Deford, Tapestry Solutions' president and CEO, said in a teleconference Oct. 18."It's an uncertain future out there for budgets and we know that we need to be flexible…

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