Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2005, Vol. 5: Hearings Before the Committee on Armed Services United States ... Second Session on S. 2400 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2005, Vol. 5: Hearings Before the Committee on Armed Services United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, Second Session on S. 2400Although the re-deployment to Iraq of Marine forces scheduled to conduct the Sea Viking experiments changed the immediate Sea Viking goals, this presented another opportunity for the s&t community to provide direct support to deploying forces while still maintaining the transformational momentum of the Sea Viking program. One of the central technology areas being pursued by Sea Viking involves on-the move command and control of dispersed forces operating on an extended battlefield. Sea Viking experiments planned to use a surrogate command and control system called the Experimental Tactical Communications System (etos). Etcs is based on the commercial iridium satellite telephone network. S&t development has modified this commercial system to achieve a tactical networked architecture that supports voice and data communications extending to any user, worldwide. A por tion of this architecture will provide portable unit, individual vehicle, or individual marine position location information that is interoperable with current command and control systems.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.