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Marine Corps To Test DTCS With Live Forces

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Thursday, October 1st, 2009

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By B.C. Kessner QUANTICO, Va.--The vision of a Marine Corps system that provides an over-the-horizon (OTH), on-the-move (OTM) comms capability will be one step closer after the Distributed Tactical Communications System (DTCS) is tested with live forces in early December, project officers from the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab said Tuesday. "We've already proven the netted-Iridium concept," John Schultz, project officer at the Lab, told Defense Daily at the Modern Day Marine Expo here. "Now we're going to do a full-up…

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