engineer should aggressively promote the development of modern alternatives that would eventually replace the current tactical data links.
Obviously the Department of the Navy and the Department of Defense (DOD) cannot abandon all legacy equipment in the near term to achieve a more flexible BMC3 capability. But if they do not starting thinking soon about what that improved capability will be, they will continue to be bound to the current legacy capability.
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