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This is the third of the AFEI Warfighter’s Vision series of conferences, which was convened in 2006 for the purpose of looking at net-centricity from the edge user in the Combatant Commands.

This year the theme of the conference reflects the critical importance of connectivity and information sharing in the joint and coalition operational context, focusing on the difficult challenges that our warfighters face.

Providing communications support in the joint and coalition environments leads our forces and Combatant Commanders towards un-chartered and un-tested advancements in technology, systems, and doctrine. The problems of modular communications, bandwidth availability, connectivity and secure mobile networks are compounded by the disparities in capability and resources between US forces and our allies and coalition partners. Much technological advancement has been made, yet the picture continues to be uncertain.

The burning question for operators continues to be sharing advancements in a joint/coalition community, at the right security level, for a common operating picture.

The conference program will examine the challenges and issues facing the warfighters, and the efforts being undertaken to achieve the vision of a network enabled operational condition for DoD.