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General Dynamics’ JTRS HMS ‘Hitting All The Milestones,’ Official Says

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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

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By Ann Roosevelt General Dynamics' [GD] Joint Tactical Radio Systems: Handheld, Manpack, Small Form Fit (JTRS HMS) is on track to connect soldiers by voice and data to a network and provide position location, a company official said. "We're on schedule, we are hitting all the milestones that are in our program plan...our schedule performance index is .98 right now, which is essentially on schedule," Chris Brady, vice president of assured communications for General Dynamics C4 Systems, told Defense Daily…

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