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By John Bendyk, Raytheon Defense and Civil Mission Solutions
With the challenge of being able to quickly provide best-of-breed capabilities to our warfighters amidst declining budgets, it's up to industry to invest in technology and closely collaborate with the U.S. Army to find rapid approaches to fielding intelligence system upgrades.
To address this situation Raytheon has developed a family of integrated analytic tools that enable analysts to work seamlessly across a number of disparate data bases, rapidly supporting intelligence operations.
We’ve designed these tools to be intuitive with network-wide collaborative capabilities. They also allow for operations in both low-bandwidth and on-the-move environments while providing advanced visualization to assist warfighters' missions. This includes successfully targeting and destroying enemy forces, while helping decrease U.S. fatalities through better situational awareness. These Forward Operating Multipliers are designed to seamlessly integrate into the existing enterprise and also easily transition into a cloud environment.
Over the past five years, Raytheon has helped enhance soldier capabilities by partnering with the DCGS-A program office, delivering solutions that have greatly assisted in moving relevant information and intelligence in near real time.
Raytheon provides an integral component of the DCGS-A Enterprise, the Distributed Common Ground Station Integrated Backbone (DIB). From its inception and fielding, the DIB has assisted the Army in moving data throughout the DCGS-A enterprise while decreasing bandwidth requirements. Incremental upgrades to applications and services that reside on the DIB have provided relevant data to warfighters in forward operational environments either through web-based portals or as integral parts of the enterprise.
This type of collaboration and investment has made it easier today for warfighters to get intelligence when and where they need it to carry out their missions.
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