The Blue Force Tracking (BFT) system — only a few years ago a wonder of battlespace technology — is in the midst of an upgrade. BFT is a building block of operational awareness. It transmits the ...

Before to major combat operations in Iraq last year, many soldiers might not have been comfortable using technology to digitally communicate with one another and commanders as they crossed through ...

TRACKING REVENUE: Northrop Grumman will provide the Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) program with a new in-line encryption device, called the KGV-72, with the latest Blue Force ...

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Feb. 13, 2013) -- On the battlefield, situational awareness technologies provide Soldiers with the locations of friendly forces and hostile activity, which can mean the ...

Blue Force Tracker is a system that gives commanders and troops in the field a real-time picture of the battlefield not possible with conventional maps. This improves situational awareness and reduces ...