Netherlands seeks to enhance forces' role in multinational operations

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The government of the Netherlands has vowed to significantly improve its capabilities and commitment to international peacekeeping. Recalling the genocide that occurred in Srebrenica, Yugoslavia, where a Dutch-protected safe haven was overran by Bosnian Serbs, the government gave its strong support for military intervention based on humanitarian grounds. In its Defense White Paper 2000 published on Nov 29, 1999, the government promised to increase its existing force by another 2,100 personnel.

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Netherlands plans communications restructure

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The Royal Netherlands Army (RNLA) is planning a restructuring of its existing communications and information systems. The move, aimed at modernizing the communication systems within the RNLA, will use commercial-off-the-shelf information and communication technology (ICT). The plan calls for the establishment of operational local area networks that will be interconnected to the army's ICT infrastructure resulting in an all-encompassing RNLA intranet.

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LFATS explores new markets as RNLN gears up for sonar trials

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The Royal Netherlands Navy has postponed sea trials for low-frequency active towed-array sonar (LFATS) systems until September or October 1998 from its original April 1998 schedule. As a result, only two contenders, CAPTAS 20 system of France-based Thomson Marconi Sonar and ACTAS system of Germany-based STN Atlas Elektronik, were left. US-based L-3 Communications will withdraw from the competition if the Royal Netherlands Navy does not evaluate its system at sea later in 1998. A spokesman for the service said that the only reason why L-3's LFATS would not be tested at sea was because of the difficulties in conducting over two tests in the available time.

Government domestic functions, Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing, Surface Ship Sonar, Defense Procurement, L-3 Communications, Sonar systems, Military procurement, Thomson Marconi Sonar, STN Atlas Elektronik, Article, ACTAS, CAPTAS 20

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