The US Army's Lt Gen Dennis Via, director C4 Systems for the Joint Staff today outlined future priorities to ensure future C4I capabilities meet the requirements of warfighters.
Speaking to delegates at the MILCOM conference on 1 November, Via described how the army must defend vital national interests in the broader Middle-East and South Central Asia with UAVs, satellite communications, ground terminals, radios, iridium and 'whatever ground forces need on ground to execute their missions'.
He described to delegates how important C4I systems were to 'win today's fight [and] ensure [warfighters] have the capability to get the intelligence that they