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Northrop Grumman Offers Army ‘Simplified’ NIK Solution

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Thursday, March 25th, 2010

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Northrop Grumman [NOC] is offering the Army a simple network integration kit (S-NIK) to connect soldiers and their equipment to a network that the company says is less than half the size, weight and cost of the system now slated for Infantry Brigade Combat Teams (IBCT). Army Brigade Combat Team (BCT) Modernization plans to give soldiers an Internet-like capability by developing software services that hook into to a System of Systems Common Operating Environment (SOSCOE) middleware that links operating systems…

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