BOEING CO. and employee-owned Science Applications International
Corp. have formalized an 8-year deal with the U.S. Army worth
up to a total of $14.8 billion to manage the design,
development and early output of a new family of networked
vehicles and drones, the Army said. Outlines of the deal,
including the amount of the contract with Boeing and SAIC, were
announced in May, when the Defense Department moved the
so-called Future Combat Systems program into its development
and design phase. The agreement "definitizes" an agreement
signed on May 30 for what amounts to the Defense Department's
second-biggest weapons program after the Joint Strike Fighter
being built by Lockheed Martin Corp., said an Army spokesman,
Maj. Greg Tallman.
(Reuters 10:47 AM ET 12/11/2003)

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Larry Dighera > wrote in message >...
> BOEING CO. and employee-owned Science Applications International
> Corp. have formalized an 8-year deal with the U.S. Army worth
> up to a total of $14.8 billion to manage the design,
> development and early output of a new family of networked
> vehicles and drones, the Army said.

When are we going to see Any Shooter Any Sensor across all service
boundaries?

The Marines send up a backpack UAV and a B2 uses it to define target
coordinates for a bomb, with data relay through a nearby Stryker.

Is it too much to ask for? Can't they all just get along?

-HJC