NLOS-C CTD, Yuma (Defense Industry Daily)From The Danger Room:
Coming Monday: A sweeping, wholesale rethinking of what the Pentagon keeps in its arsenal -- and how America exercises its power around the world. Well, maybe. If early reports are to be believed.
For more than a year, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has been warning the military-industrial complex that the way its buys weapons just plain sucks -- and that what it buys is often more geared towards a Cold War-type scenario than today's guerrilla fights. "I believe that any major weapons program, in order to remain viable, will have to show some utility and relevance to the kind of irregular campaigns," Gates said last May.
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My Comment: A sign of the times .... this is probably one of many defense programs that are going to be cut in the next few months.