CWID is a Joint Chiefs of Staff-directed annual event that engages cutting-edge information technology focused on criteria defined by combatant commanders. Technologies are approved for participation because they address a new information sharing capability or might improve an existing capability in support of articulated demonstration objectives released as a Federal Business Opportunity (FBO) (www.fedbizopps.gov).

The demonstration evaluates technologies and capabilities for exchanging information among coalition partners, military services, government agencies, first responders and U.S. combatant commanders, especially the 2009 host, U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM). Information sharing technologies leverage decision-making and operational flexibility on the battlefield and during crisis response on the home front.

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