How to blow $6 billion on a tech project
The Army's cancelled Ground Mobile Radio cost $6 billion to fail. In 1997, the Defense Department began its quest for the perfect family of radios: software-defined radios that, like computers, could be reprogrammed for different missions and could communicate with everything the US military used. Digital signal processing could adaptively use available radio spectrum based on the needs of the moment, turning soldiers, tanks, planes, and ships into nodes of a broadband radio-based network. The goal was to solve radio problems like this one in Afghanistan, detailed by the...
Published By: Ars Technica - Monday, 18 June, 2012
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