Saving the EMPIRE: Empire Challenge organizers cite training glitch as latest reason to continue intel demo

摘要

With the future of the U.S.-led multinational Empire Challenge intelligence-sharing demonstration hanging in the balance, the event's organizers are sharing details about what they said was a potentially deadly force-tracking glitch discovered during this year's demonstration. In Afghanistan, British forces rely on Bowman tactical radios to report the position of British vehicles to the U.S. Global Command and Control System and the Command Post of the Future, two networks that display the locations of allied forces to U.S. commanders.