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National Defense July 2012 Dan Ward	Tactical Radios: Military Procurement Gone Awry How exactly did the Army go about making the radio better and better? By increasing its complexity, extending the schedule, spending more money and making the device larger.
National Defense September 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Army Under Pressure to Bring Broadband to The Battlefield In the Army's 2010 modernization roadmap, the "network" is billed as a top priority.
National Defense May 2007 Sandra Erwin	Defense Department `Bundles' Handheld Radio Procurements The Defense Department is expected to soon seek industry bids for as many as 89,000 handheld combat radios.
National Defense May 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Trials and tribulations persist in Joint Tactical Radio The military services are severely slashing their expected buys of the Defense Department's troubled joint tactical radio system.
National Defense February 2013 Valerie Insinna	Radio Competition Reaches Final Stretch Companies competing for the Mid-Tier Networking Vehicular Radio have one more test before the Army awards a contract this year.
National Defense December 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Troops in The Digital Age, Disconnected As surprising as it may seem in today's wired culture, troops in combat zones do not have easy access to information.
National Defense April 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Army's Promise to War-Bound Soldiers: A Wireless Mobile Network If the Army's new tech-buying strategy goes according to plan, soldiers soon may be ditching paper maps, staticky radios and bulky satellite receivers.
National Defense September 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Urban Battles Highlight Shortfalls in Soldier Communications The chaotic door-to-door warfare seen in Iraq offers glaring proof that dismounted U.S. troops need better communications devices, experts contend. When radios failed, soldiers resorted to the only available and reliable form of communication: screaming.
National Defense May 2004 Sandra Erwin	Pentagon Rethinks Management Approach To Joint Tactical Radio The Defense Department's ambitious plans to replace every military radio with a single radio system are being dampened somewhat by the difficulties in coordination among the services and the sheer scope of the project.
National Defense September 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Army, Marines Buying Loads Of Radios In response to booming Army and Marine Corps tactical radio orders, manufacturers rapidly are expanding their production capacity to meet this extraordinary demand.
National Defense August 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Closest of Allies, But Not When it Comes to Radios Despite considerable advances in tactical communications technology interoperability on the battlefield between U.S. and U.K. forces remains years away.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2009 John Keller	FCS: Too Big to Fail, or Too Juicy a Target to Succeed? The U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) program appears to be finished -- at least as originally conceived
National Defense August 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Army's Next Combat Vehicle: New Beginning or FCS Sequel? The Army is racing toward a September deadline to present a convincing case to the secretary of defense that it should receive funds to begin designing a new combat vehicle next year.
National Defense July 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Wrangling Over Future Combat Systems Raises Larger Questions A contentious bout of budget drills on Capitol Hill this year featured the Army's top brass mounting a passionate defense of its prized Future Combat Systems.
Defense Update Issue 1, 2008	FCS Vehicles Move On The new family of vehicles is introducing many new capabilities to the Army, including electrical propulsion for combat vehicles.
National Defense March 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	Army's Acquisition of Battle Network Slowed Down by Red Tape The Army's fast-track method of buying mobile networks for deployed soldiers could be in jeopardy as long as it remains bound by existing procurement regulations, government and industry sources said.
National Defense July 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	In Damage Control Mode, Army Builds Future Network for Combat Brigades For the Army, this may be its last chance of salvaging the surviving pieces of the ill-starred "future combat systems."
National Defense June 2007 Stew Magnuson	Future Combat Vehicles Will Fall Short of Preferred Weight Officials working on the Army modernization program admitted that they will not reach the preferred weight for the FCS family of combat vehicles.
National Defense August 2008 Sandra I. Erwin	Future Combat Systems Accelerated, One More Time Watchers of the Army's largest ever high-tech weapons project, the Future Combat Systems, may have experienced a classic case of deja vu last month -- when the service announced its latest plan to rush FCS technologies to the front lines.
National Defense October 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Army's Vice Chief: 'We Have to Speed Up How We Procure Things' The Army's antiquated ways of buying new equipment are depriving soldiers of the latest technology and making it more difficult for them to do their jobs, says Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2007	U.S. Army Awards Agilent Technologies $94 Million Contract for Radio Test Sets Agilent's AN/PRM-35 radio test set (RTS) will test the performance of field radios in harsh environments.
National Defense May 2010 Stew Magnuson	Army Seeks to Quiet Skeptics As it Tries New Acquisition Strategy One year after Defense Secretary Robert Gates canceled the Army's Future Combat Systems program, service leaders say they are moving forward with a new acquisition regime.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2007 Courtney E. Howard	FCS is Coming to Fruition Industry players advance vehicle electronics in an effort to put Future Combat Systems in the hands of current-force soldiers sooner than expected.
National Defense June 2005 Roxana Tiron	Army's Future Combat Systems Could See International Partners U.S. Army officials are in the early stages of discussing foreign military sales and international collaboration on the service's most ambitious modernization program.
National Defense July 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Army's Next Combat Vehicle: Cheaper and Simpler The Army lost a bruising battle to save its Future Combat Systems. Now the service is hoping that it can pick up the pieces and move on, although it's not yet clear how.
National Defense July 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Sticker Shock Felt As New Radios Are Acquired Despite suffering from sticker shock, the military services are proceeding with plans to install a new generation of software-based tactical radios that will be common across all weapon systems.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2008 Courtney E. Howard	Army Settles on Final Non-Line-of-Sight Cannon System for Future Combat Systems The U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) program has logged a milestone by integrating the first FCS manned ground vehicle (MGV) Non-Line-of-Sight Cannon (NLOS-C) prototype.
National Defense October 2012 Eric Beidel	Industry Ready to Pounce on Embattled Radio Programs After nearly two decades and billions of dollars spent, the Joint Tactical Radio System, once a grand plan to build do-it-all radios common to the military services, is in a state of flux.
National Defense April 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Army Struggles With Weight Of Future Combat Systems Only weeks before a crucial Pentagon review, officials overseeing the Army's Future Combat Systems continue to search for ways to lower the weight of new vehicle designs. A key requirement in FCS is that all vehicles be transportable by C-130 cargo aircraft.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2007 J.R. Wilson	Army Plans Extensive Training and Simulation Infrastructure for Future Combat System The Army has created a unique special unit called the Evaluation Brigade Combat Team (EBCT) to test and evaluate every component of the new Future Combat System (FCS) before fielding.
National Defense April 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Spending Muscle Fueled By Emergency Funding A combination of bigger procurement accounts in this year's budget and war-emergency appropriations puts the Army on course to receive some of the largest levels of funding it has seen in decades.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2007 Courtney E. Howard	Army Officials cut FCS Program from 18 Systems to 14 U.S. Army officials have restructured the Future Combat Systems program to modernize the current force, while also providing the future force with advanced technology.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2009 John McHale	SDR: A Spectrum of Possibilities Whether it is called a disruptive technology or a paradigm shift in communications, the proliferation of software-defined radio (SDR) technology is changing the way the military and other industries view radio communications.
National Defense May 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense Dept. Studying Options To Lower Cost of GPS Receivers Information-age technologies such as software radio and miniaturized electronics could, one day, make it possible for soldiers to combine their global positioning satellite receivers and handheld radios into a single device.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2006 John McHale	Boeing Future Combat System Shows Maturity in Joint Experiment The U.S. Army's Future Combat System program, managed by the Lead Systems Integrator team of Boeing and partner Science Applications International Corporation, demonstrated networking and systems capabilities in the first of two major field experiments scheduled for 2006.
National Defense June 2009	Readers Sound Off on Recent Stories Working with allies... Robots in the military... Lessons from future combat systems...
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2008 John McHale	SDR: Here, There, and Everywhere Software-defined radio technology, driven by the Joint Tactical Radio System program, is enhancing communications throughout the U.S. military and in civilian and commercial applications worldwide.
National Defense August 2004 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Soldiers Benefit From `Rapid Fielding' Mentality Among the organizations that really have pulled out all the stops to get needed technology to the field quickly is the Army Research Development and Engineering Command.
The Motley Fool May 22, 2009 Rich Smith	Boeing Says A-B-C-U-Later to $160 Billion Program The Pentagon confirmed that it is officially putting an end to its "$160 billion" Future Combat Systems program in its current form, heading off taxpayer fears that runaway costs could morph FCS into a $300 billion boondoggle.
National Defense March 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Army Rethinks, Again, How to Acquire Technology A decade of war taught the Army, among other lessons, that it needed a new approach for buying information-age technologies such as computers and communications systems.
National Defense November 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	For Army's Future Combat Vehicles, Flying by C-130 No Longer Required There's been an evolution in thinking in the Army on transportability. Building an 18-ton vehicle that can survive the rigors of combat like an Abrams proved to be too hard and unrealistic from an engineering standpoint.
National Defense June 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Special Operations Forces in the Market For Global Communications Technology When they deploy to combat zones, special operations troops bring along a multitude of gizmos. Besides basic line-of-sight radios to communicate with their peers, they need devices to connect with other U.S. government agencies and allies.
BusinessWeek June 25, 2007 Stanley Holmes	High-Tech Weapons: A Loss Of Control? The Pentagon may be ceding too much power to Boeing and other contractors.
National Defense April 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Guard Equipment Bill Surpasses $100 Billion A commitment by the Army to pour $21 billion into the National Guard's procurement accounts is reassuring, but still not enough to fill equipment shortages.
National Defense May 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Army's iPhone Dreams Clash With Reality The Army launched a competition to see if techies can design soldier-friendly smartphone applications. The contest may be premature, however, as it could be years before the Army adopts smartphones as standard soldier equipment.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2008 John McHale	JTRS HMS Program on Track Engineers at General Dynamics C4 Systems say the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Handheld, Manpack, and Small Form Fit (HMS) radios are on track for deployment at the beginning of the next decade.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2005	BAE Systems Uses MathWorks Tool to Design Antenna Stabilizer Soldiers in the U.S. Army's Future Combat System vehicles will use these antennas to get mobile and dependable communications from their Joint Tactical Radio System radios and Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T), even as their Humvees travel over rough ground.
National Defense April 2013 Valerie Insinna	Rifleman Radio Competition Heats Up Vendors could have another chance to score a production contract for the rifleman radio as early as this spring, when the Army opens up the competition before moving to full-rate production.
National Defense February 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Soldiers on the Move Have Yet to Profit From Information Age Army combat brigades during the past two years have been outfitted with the latest communications and networking technology. But the improved connectivity has yet to filter down to the small mobile units below the battalion level.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2007 Courtney E. Howard	General Dynamics and Rockwell Collins Debut First Integrated Computer Systems for the Future Combat Systems Program The integration will deliver Future Combat System (FCS)-equipped military units with exceptional processing, networking, data-storage, and information assurance capabilities.