The extended littoral battlespace is beginning to shrink as commanders acquire the capability to monitor force operations from greater distances in nearreal and real time. Recent exercises held on and off the California coast demonstrated a number of different approaches to linking offshore commanders with onshore events. This connectivity extends all the way down to soldiers on the battlefield. It ranges from providing officers on command and control vessels with real-time situational awareness on large display screens to allowing infantry in foxholes to access fire-control data on palm devices.
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