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People of Northwest Public Radio
National Security
12:00 pm
Tue January 10, 2012
Army Scraps Most Of The JTRS Program
By editor
The Army has spent billions of dollars in the past 15 years on an ambitious program to develop a universal radio. It was called the Joint Tactical Radio System, or "JTRS." But now the Army has scrapped most of that program. Melissa Block talks to military writer David Axe about its failure.