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- ↑ Top Level Telecommunications: Five Eyes, 9-Eyes and many more, November 15, 2013
- ↑ NMIO Technical Bulletin Archived 2013-02-13 at the Wayback Machine , January 2012, p. 8.
- ↑ NMIO Technical Bulletin Archived 2013-02-13 at the Wayback Machine , January 2012, p. 8.
- 1 2 3 Boardman, Jill L.; Shuey, Donald W. (April 2004), Combined Enterprise Regional Information Exchange System (CENTRIXS); Supporting Coalition Warfare World-Wide (PDF), USCENTCOM, p. 15, archived from the original (PDF) on August 24, 2006
- ↑ http://www.afceatampa.org/events/pdf/presentations/May%202013%20ACFEA%20Luncheon.pptx%5B%5D