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Ars Technica has a couple of good articles about JTRS from 2012[0] and 2018[1]. EDIT: Link from the 1st article to a report by David Axe @ The Center for Publi
by sillywalk 1y ago
Ars Technica has a couple of good articles about JTRS from 2012[0] and 2018[1].
EDIT: Link from the 1st article to a report by David Axe @ The Center for Public Integrity[2].
[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/how-to-blow-6-billion-on-a-tech-project/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/how-t...
[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/03/the-armys-costly-quest-for-the-perfect-radio-continues/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/03/the-a...
[2] https://publicintegrity.org/national-security/failure-to-communicate-inside-the-armys-doomed-quest-for-the-perfect-radio/ https://publicintegrity.org/national-security/failure-to-com...
- ajb 1y agoYeah those are good What they should have done is a smaller project to roll up all the old legacy radios into SDR, leaving the new ones as custom silicon. That would have stood a decent chance of working, and then they could go for the more ambitious goals later . Problem is that it would not have got the people working on it into the exciting (and higher revenue) new radios.
- p_l 1y agoN.b. recently we had a bit of a small scandal in Poland which, among details, had the question of why perfectly fine radios had to be replaced on a bunch of new machines. The official answer is that the new (L3Harris) radios are for better cooperation with M1 Abrams (the scandalous part was that the machines weren't supposed to cooperate with Abrams). The unofficial addendum however was that "Americans implement STANAGs in not really compliant or compatible ways"