Defense Department leaders are pondering how to breathe new life into a command-and-control program -- once set to expire -- now that its intended successor is progressing too slowly, according to defense officials. The recently unveiled conference agreement on the fiscal year 2010 defense authorization bill requires defense officials to craft a report detailing how they see the marriage of the existing Global Command and Control System-Joint with the troubled Net-Enabled Command Capability effort. Citing significant schedule slips and department...
