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Central Component of Marines’ CAC2S Passes Critical Design Review

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, February 12th, 2014

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General Dynamics [GD] C4 Systems will begin building three more engineering development models of its Aviation Command and Control Subsystem (AC2S) after passing a critical design review with the Marine Corps. The first EDM was delivered last month for the review, which moves the component of the Marines’ Common Aviation Command and Control System (CAC2S) into its first government testing phase, GDC4S announced Feb. 4. With the design now locked in, “the performance of the AC2S as part of CAC2S is,…

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