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Navy/USMC

Submarine Learning Center Using ARCI Model To Get Training To Sailors

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Thursday, March 11th, 2010

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By Geoff Fein While the submarine program continues to rapidly insert commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) technologies to modernize the fleet, officials are also making sure the schoolhouses not only have the latest versions of equipment, but are providing the most up-to-date training to sailors. The Submarine Learning Center has turned to a model based on the Acoustic Rapid COTS Insertion (ARCI) program to provide training on modernized equipment to operators in real time as they are getting the systems, Capt. Kenneth Swan,…

Army

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Congress

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Army

Hegseth Says DoD Open To Reviewing Army’s Planned Cuts To Legacy Helicopter Procurement

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Congress

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