Comments on: Curtains for “Jitters”?

By: xman

xman — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:29:04 +0000

Your are right.! The WNW waveform is designed to carry video from the T-UGS sensors, for example. The problem with the radio will be its very limited range; that is 2 miles or less. It takes bandwidth to send video and thus one needs UHF or higher, which has poor propagation charactistics. Th.

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By: JTRS dude

JTRS dude — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 17:13:17 +0000

There are so many errors in the article that it would be better to get the facts straight before make comments…

By: Dfens

Dfens — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 04:28:29 +0000

Byron, I just reread my earlier post. Sorry about misspelling your name. I think it’s finger dyslexia.
I should mention, though, the DoD knows very well the game that’s being played here. These guys swap back and forth between industry and the government all the time. They know what’s going on.
Have you figured out the scam where Congress cuts the budget for a program and the program gets more expensive? Not only does the program get more expensive, but the schedule slides to the right and, as if by magic, the cost over runs disappear. Do I need to tell you how this scam works?
Haven’t you ever wondered how a 20+ year duration program like F-22 can be on budget and schedule every single year? They’re on a cost plus development contract, and yet every year they make full profit on every dime they spend. That’s a pretty good feat when you consider that if they were to over run, they would make zero profit on everything they spent that wasn’t in their budget for that year. Let’s see if you can figure out how they do that. It’s yet another aspect of this military industrial complex joke that’s hiding in plain sight.

By: Dfens

Dfens — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 01:43:46 +0000

Come on, Bryon, you're smart enough to think more than one step ahead. So think about what's going to happen after this program gets cancelled. Is the Army going to need a new radio ever again? I'll bet they will. So that means they will need a new program to replace the old one. Who do you think will bid on the new program? Hmm, there are so many potential candidates... I'd hold their damn feet to the fire if it were up to me. I'd quit giving them a free pass with budget and schedule and let them over run their cost plus contract so their profit on development would dry up. They sure as hell would stop getting an award fee. I'd also make them fire the morons who lied about being able to do the work in the first place or else I'd suspend the company from being able to bid on new work until they did. If the program got cancelled it would be at the contractors request. They'd be the ones that would pay me for the f-ups. It sure wouldn't be me paying a cancellation fee. Sure, go ahead and try the same thing that's failed time and time again, then wonder why you get the same result. As long as being stupid pays better than doing the job right, guess what's going to happen? The contractors are going to be stupid. And y'all are just too ready to play along. How many times are you going to get screwed before you figure it out?

By: TheMasterTimekeeper

TheMasterTimekeeper — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 00:39:23 +0000

Skinner,
I can’t agree that sat-phones are “several generations ahead” of JTRS. It may be that we’re talking abou apples and oranges here, but given your statement about the –117F* I suspect that in this case you just don’t know any better.
It’s an impolite thing to put so harshly, especially in light of the many reasoned and insightful comments you’ve made in the past, but it must be said.
One other thing– if you think officers are underpaid, well, you should have been enlisted.

By: Noah Shachtman

Noah Shachtman — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 23:18:28 +0000

Hey FCS Engineer:
Drop me a line, willya? It’ll be strictly off-the-record…
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By: TheMasterTimekeeper

TheMasterTimekeeper — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 20:13:30 +0000

Gopi, you’ve made some outstanding points. I’d like to piggyback on them by pointing out that “interoperability” means talking to EVERYone. Leapfrogging so far ahead with squad radios, for instance, could come at the expense of being able to talk to everyon else. Like, oh, aircraft. Or other countries, or even other services who aren’t up to the latest standard. Interoperability is a tricky beast at best and we would do well to remember that many of the platforms we need to talk to are going to be years, or even decades, behind.

By: FCS Engineer

FCS Engineer — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 15:12:17 +0000

No one I work with believes JTRS or FCS will survive. They are to many technical and/or management problems. The wasteful spending is intense and there is almost nothing to show for it. Nothing.
FCS is particular is so out of control that it needs to be stopped.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 11:25:21 +0000

Can I be the first to out myself as an Internet utopian and suggest the following action: Bin the whole bunch of shit, buy a ton of IEEE802.16e WiMax kit when the standard completes early next year (Motorola will gladly make it), stick the base stations on Humvees and the switch in a truck, and do encrypted voice-over-IP.