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Army Science Board Study Urges Service To Stop Buying SINCGARS

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Thursday, October 11th, 2007

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The Army has requested $1.4 billion in supplemental funding to buy a radio for soldiers that the service's own science board recommends it should "stop buying immediately." A briefing from an Army Science Board summer study of the service's plan for future networks urged the service to halt the purchase of its current radio of choice, the Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System (SINCGARS). The Army eventually plans to purchase the software-defined Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) for its…

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