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Digital Production System (DPS), an ambitious and critical modernization program which sought to redesign and retool the agency's mapping, charting, and geodesy production systems and processes. Phase I (Mark 85) of the DPS upgraded
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Directorate of Operational Requirements, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff; Research, Development and Acquisition.
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