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Article: Web of integrated command controls forces in Operation Iraqi Freedom: previously non-digitized units host measure of digitization, interoperability for Operation Iraqi Freedom.(Blue Force Tracking success in OIF)
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- Army Communicator
- Article date:
- September 22, 2003
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CAMP DOHA, Kuwait -- When the 4th Infantry Division joined the ranks of divisions and brigades operating in Iraq, rather than standing alone as the sole digital division, its computer screens showed instead it was just another digital Joe.
In October 2002, Headquarters Department of the Army tasked the system engineer for the 4th ID's digital equipment, Program Executive Office for command, control, communications tactical, to digitally integrate units under the Coalition Forces Land Component Command command center, including the already digitized 4th ID, other Army divisions, U.S. Marines and United Kingdom forces.
And by the time ground forces crossed ...