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   XPost: comp.dsp, sci.crypt, sci.electronics.design   
   From: NotaBrewster@thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org   
      
   On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:30:29 -0800 (PST), Le Chaud Lapin   
    wrote:   
      
   >"The JTRS program has encountered a number of problems, resulting in   
   >significant delays and cost increases. The proram is currently   
   >estimated to total about $37 billion.":   
      
     You conveniently ALWAYS forget the FACT that they requites for the   
   system were MORE than doubled, and yet the cost has not.  So, if   
   anything, the program should be commends for NOT following the standard   
   model where such huge requisite switching horseshit results in a tripling   
   of the cost and an additional ten years.   
      
     You have no clue what all has been added to the system or even how the   
   joint forces have evolved since the onset.  The entire world has moved   
   forward in electronics, and you are still talking like we are all on '91   
   era gear.   
      
     Essentially, regardless of all the reading you have done or claim to   
   have done on it, what you have missed is that the reasons given for the   
   time and cost extensions are 100% legitimate.   
      
     Obama's promised absence of pork spending that fell on it's face, right   
   out of the other side of his mouth, to the tune of far more than that.   
      
     You should complain about crap like that, not about programs that are   
   actually part of our defense, and that are actually working.   
      
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