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Air Force

Improving ISR For The Tactical Edge Is Key To JFCOM’s Empire Challenge 09

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Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

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By Ann Roosevelt Empire Challenge 09, the sixth annual live joint and coalition intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) interoperability demonstration, is under way focusing on providing ISR support to warfighters from the tactical edge to the combined Joint Task force (CTF) level. "That is what we're really trying to focus on is getting that ISR information out to that tactical edge," said John Kittle, project manager for the annual Empire Challenge series of events at U.S. Joint Forces Command (JFCOM).…

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