Army developing 'flying network' for multidomain operations

By Jaspreet Gill / October 17, 2019 at 3:27 PM
The Army is developing a "digital backbone" for its aircraft while modernizing the current fleet, according to the program executive officer for aviation. The "Aviation Mission Common Server" will be the service's processing, storage and transport layer of aircraft while in the air, Maj. Gen. Thomas Todd, told Inside Defense in an interview Wednesday at the Association of the U.S. Army's annual meeting. "You're building, essentially, a flying network that not only can plug into the Army network but that...

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