Army eyes 'reachback' capabilities to hasten deployments

By Sebastian Sprenger / October 18, 2015 at 3:45 PM
New insights from an internal Army analysis suggest prioritizing the deployment of smaller communications hubs to the front lines and leaving manpower-intensive analysis work to be done remotely from U.S. locations, according to a senior official. The thinking follows a recent round of reviews of so-called Army Warfighting Challenges, a collection of service tasks that, when examined collectively, are expected to provide a comprehensive picture of capability shortfalls and trends. The results, while perhaps seeming obvious to the uninitiated, essentially...

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