Small Businesses Fight Uphill Battle for Army Network Contracts

摘要

White Sands Missile Range, N.M. - Here at a forward operating base in the middle of 2.2 million acres of uninhabited New Mexico desert is where companies hope they can do what they have told the Army they can do. Called Oro Grande, this small tented outpost - ringed by concertina wire and flanked by motor pools of mine resistant ambush protected vehicles - is where lab-tested elements of the Army's newest battlefield network are finally evaluated for integration into individual units and vehicles. If they don't work here, the Army won't buy them.