This report discusses the Global Information Grid (GIG), which is the enabling infrastructure for Network Centric Warfare (NCW), a concept that relies on communications technology to link together U.S. military personnel, ground vehicles, aircraft, and naval vessels through integrated wide and local area networks to provide improved battle space awareness for joint military forces
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This report discusses the Global Information Grid (GIG), which is the enabling infrastructure for Network Centric Warfare (NCW), a concept that relies on communications technology to link together U.S. military personnel, ground vehicles, aircraft, and naval vessels through integrated wide and local area networks to provide improved battle space awareness for joint military forces
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Wilson, Clay.Defense Program Issue: Global Information Grid, Bandwidth Expansion (GIG-BE),
report,
March 11, 2005;
Washington D.C..
(https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc821704/:
accessed April 18, 2024),
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