The Joint Tactical Radio System's Ground Mobile Radio has been officially terminated, according to a letter sent to Congress yesterday by Frank Kendall, the Pentagon's acting acquisition chief. Army officials told InsideDefense.com last week that the service no longer wished to procure the Boeing-made radio, and expected Kendall to kill it in short order. In the Oct. 13 memo, Kendall wrote that he was canceling the program based on "growth in unit procurement costs." "Our assessment is that it...
