Battlefield COMMUNICATIONS: Clash Over Conflicting Priorities Disrupts Tactical Radio Program

摘要

The plan appeared simple enough: The Defense Department would develop a new family of tactical radios to replace thousands of outdated communications devices that don't allow the military services to talk to one another. Nearly seven years after it was conceived, the Pentagon's ambitious effort to field the Joint Tactical Radio System largely remains mired in bureaucratic infighting. It also is suffering from bad timing, as the demands for new radios for troops in Iraq have driven the Army, particularly, to pour billions of dollars into new radios that are not part of the JTRS family.