The Defense Department recently awarded the much-anticipated Airborne-Maritime-Fixed station version of the Joint Tactical Radio System contract to a Lockheed Martin-led team, Pentagon officials announced late in the afternoon March 28. The award -- one of the Pentagon's largest for the current fiscal year -- gives the world's largest defense contractor $766 million to move the delay-plagued AMF version of the radio into the system development and demonstration (SDD) phase. Lockheed Martin - and Boeing-led teams each have been vying...
