From Nextgov.com: Defense asks industry for help to cut its communications cord

The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command has asked communications companies to submit ideas for a wireless headset for the four-member crew in armored vehicles.

At a time when even children have one, if not two, wireless gadgets, soldiers in armored vehicles still communicate the old-fashioned way: through headsets mounted on their helmets and connected by a cord to an intercom system on their tanks or personnel carriers.

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