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Joint Tactical Radio System
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 Army did something brave this Summer without even visiting a war zone. It retracted a request-for-proposals on its future Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV) because senior leaders decided the requirements were too demanding. The reason that was a brave thing to do is because anytime a solicitation
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Date:
11/8/2010

