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DoD Chief Tester Wants Oversight, Tests, On Harris AN/PRC 117G

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, October 16th, 2012

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The Army’s top acquisition official and a program executive officer (PEO) must provide the DoD’s chief tester with a test plan by January for the Harris [HRS] Falcon III AN/PRC-117G radios. “Provide to me for review by Jan. 2, 2013 a plan to conduct realistic operational testing spanning the full set of potential capabilities of the radio as part of a Network Integrated Evaluation (NIE) conducted during 2013,” wrote J. Michael Gilmore, director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) in…

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