The Army has made plans to field Raytheon's MAINGATE radio to a full battalion in next fall's Network Integration Evaluation, while so-called "mid-tier" Joint Tactical Radio System devices using the Wideband Networking Waveform have been excluded, according to Army and industry officials. Jeff Miller, Raytheon's director of tactical communication systems, sought to portray the move as a coup for his company's product, which has come from outside the JTRS program-of-record process to compete for the Army's radio business. "We were...
