Pentagon cancels $15.9 billion battlefield radio program

Officials seek industry-developed replacement for broadband system after spiraling costs trigger termination.

The Defense Department formally terminated a more than decade old, $15.9 billion program to develop a radio capable of transmitting broadband data on the battlefield in a letter to Congress on Thursday, Lt. Col. Melinda Morgan, an Air Force spokeswoman, told Nextgov.

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