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The Army is finally making some progress in supplying its combat forces with the kind of software-defined radios that can support robust connectivity even in adverse circumstances. On the one hand, it is sticking with the part of the long-running Joint Tactical Radio System program that seems to
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Date:
10/22/2012
Pentagon acquisition chief Ashton Carter has approved two high-tech military radios for production that will thoroughly revolutionize the way in which U.S. soldiers and other warfighters operate on future battlefields. The radios are compact, "software-reconfigurable" communications devices developed
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Date:
6/22/2011
After a decade of development, the family of digital communications devices known as the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS, or "Jitters") is approaching production. The JTRS architecture features "software reprogrammable" radios that can add new types of signals simply by downloading computer code
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Date:
5/16/2011
Last month the co-chairmen of the President's bipartisan deficit reduction commission offered a series of recommendations for trimming federal spending, including defense cuts that would total $100 billion annually by 2015. I thought the proposed defense cuts were reasonable. However, the two
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Date:
12/13/2010
The greatest technological achievement on the modern battlefield has been the introduction of wireless communications devices that can pierce the fog of war. The confusion once thought to be an inevitable companion of combat is gradually dissipating as new ways of exchanging information become
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Date:
5/5/2010
Development of the Army's revolutionary Ground Mobile Radio (GMR) is 95% complete, and is entering government testing to verify its performance features. GMR is the leading edge of a family of "software-defined" radios that can easily switch among various modes and functions by using agile computer
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Date:
4/23/2010
During the late 1990s, at the height of the dot.com boom, the U.S. military was seized with an enthusiasm for networked warfare and all things digital that produced a series of big "system-of-system" development programs. Two of those efforts, the Air Force's Transformational Communications Satellite
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Date:
3/10/2010

