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Marines to divest legacy weapons for tech-oriented future
« on: May 03, 2020, 11:07:26 am »
Marines to divest legacy weapons for tech-oriented future

    By Lauren C. Williams
    Apr 22, 2020

The Marine Corps wants its future force to be more network and cloud oriented, and plans to divest of some legacy weapons and communications systems to get there.

"We're trading artillery and cannons and tanks in order to get after command and control modernization, electronic warfare, alternatives for positioning, navigation and timing, long range fires," said Ken Bible, the Marine Corps' deputy CIO during a virtual AFCEA NOVA event April 17.

https://defensesystems.com/articles/2020/04/22/usmc-future-tech-bible.aspx