Helo-Protecting Advanced Sensors Hurried

"After generations of talk but little success,
integration and commonality of digital sensors
among operational forces of the U.S. Army,
Navy and Air Force are showing surprisingly
vibrant signs of life.

A competition was kicked off late last year to
design, build and demonstrate prototypes of the
Joint and Allied Threat Awareness System (Jatas)
to protect Navy and Marine Corps helicopters and
tiltrotor aircraft from both dumb and smart weapons.
The two remaining competitors are Lockheed Martin
and the team of Alliant Techsystems (ATK) and
BAE Systems.

Jatas is to be the core of a system that can grow,
as technology and funding allow, to detect lasers,
small-arms fire, shoulder-fired rockets as well as
guided surface-to-air and air-to-air missiles.
Eventually, Jatas is expected to encompass cyber-
network detection, analysis and, possibly, attack."

See:

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/gener...hannel=defense

A system that can handle everything from lasers,
to small-arms fire to cyberwarfare?

I get the feeling this program is going to choke to
death on it's own complexity and cost overruns
as it tries to be all things to all people (like an
electronic equivalent of the old TFX program).