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Boeing Awaits Decision On AMF JTRS

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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

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By Ann Roosevelt This week, Boeing [BA] officials expect to receive the request for the final proposal revision in its competition with Lockheed Martin [LMT] for the military's next generation Airborne Maritime and Fixed Station Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS AMF). The Defense Department FY '09 budget requests $834.6 million in research, development, test and evaluation for JTRS-Navy. The JTRS program is a DoD-wide program led by the Navy through the Program Executive Office-JTRS, located at Naval Sea Systems Command,…

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