Re: Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS)

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

It could be because they accelerated the schedule dramatically. 
Originally FCS was supposed to be fielded somewhere about 2015. I seem 
to have hit some info indicating it got pulled forward to 2008. You can 
accelerate some R&D by throwing gobs of money at it, but not always. 
Technological breakthroughs needed for JTRS or WIN-T might not be the 
kind of thing you can rush.

Still, since JTRS seems to be an intensively software kind of thing and 
the type of thing that once defined, becomes a platform for a bunch of 
other things, it would be a shame if the core of it got built in C (or 
something else) and left Ada as an "Also Ran". The language used to 
implement the infrastructure is tough to supplant on the add-ons once it 
gets established. That's why I thought it would be an important deal for 
Ada to win.

MDC

Larry Kilgallen wrote:
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> since the above was posted, there has been some non-governmentese posted,
> but not quite favorable:
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