NCW it's very Important, especially Military Satellites, SIGINT Aircraft, AWACS, and Maritime Patrol Aircraft, if well integrated with other assets (especially anti-submarine surface ships), it's very useful as intelligence data to identify enemy submarines, especially nuclear submarines that have unpredictable sonar and signal signature
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Maybe because the media just sniff the news recently? Or it could be another effort from mindef to show off that their actually doing something? Some sort of propaganda of some kind? I mean, so far there's no significant big ticket item purchase has been achieved by the mindef. All talks but no result. Meanwhile the situation in SCS is escalating.
We have to see how he was "dancing" in the media at previous Presidential campaign to understand this kind of a game. Its the same thing but with different object basically. Its open for interpretation, but if I can speculate this might be a hint that the future/upcoming alutsista purchase must be base on this network platform. This "news" prolly aim for upcoming service suppliers/integrator.
AFAIK big ticket purchase usually come from pinjaman luar negri. This budgeting will be done in September, so if we looking for the big one it might come after the budget been approved.
