Joint Tactical Radio System Program Achieves $104M Savings
January 21, 2008 // Published as a news service by IHS
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The Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) program achieved $104 million in savings due to combining the acquisition, requirements and resource processes and instituting a business model that fosters competition in production, according to the Joint Program Executive Office (JPEO) for the JTRS program.
The savings were achieved in a purchase of 39,000 U.S. Army single-channel handheld radios, said the JPEO JTRS.
During the past three years, the JPEO worked on turning the JTRS program around by:
- Including a new governance structure that brings the acquisition, requirements and resource processes together.
- Instituting a new business model that fosters competition in production and is designed to drive down costs.
- Instituting an open systems approach for software development that better meets joint interoperability needs at detailed tactical levels.
Program milestones for 2007 were met and future benchmarks are on schedule as a result of the practices including competitive production with back-loaded incentives, according to the JPEO JTRS.
The JTRS also implemented:
- An open standards approach with interchangeable software for "plug and play" operability.
- Government purpose software rights for increased competition to drive down costs and promote private R&D.
- A joint governance structure that is designed to simplify decision making and include participation by all branches of the military and U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) interests.
Source: Joint Program Executive Office (JPEO), Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS).