$7 billion across for 14 years is a piece of cake in world-wide telecom market, not mentioned that the scope of WIN-T program is too ambitious. Maybe US DOD has power to facilitate a few communication systems concurrently. But it is COTS era for several years except for a few niche RF markets such as SATCOM, Long Range Missile-up/down Link, and sophisticated jammers and receivers. Even before a network management software of a specified product, such as ADSL, MOD, Cable Modem, is integrated, the high tide/climax of these products lives just passed.

所謂的FBCB2，其實就跟台灣大車隊的派車系統一樣，只是通信系統用加密無線電而不是GSM，另外每輛「計程車」除了語音與文字以外，還有一個液晶螢幕可以接收圖像訊息。骨子裡，都是每一台車子安裝一套GPS，不斷發送GPS座標讓總部彙整訊息，另外總部也可以傳遞叫客資訊給司機的無線電派車系統。

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DARPA developing killer tech [FCW.com, May 27, 2002]
Air Force officials will equip more aircraft with the old, slow but reliable Link 16 during the next five years because they cannot find a better and more secure high-capacity communications system, according to a top warfighting information technology official.
Link 16 裝備量將從 2004 年的 700 架飛機增加到 2009 年的1,380 架
They will expand the use of Link 16 from 700 aircraft in 2004 to 1,380 aircraft by 2009. Technology doesnt allow us to do anything else, said Maj. Gen. Charles Croom Jr., director of command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance infrastructure and deputy chief of staff for warfighting integration. Croom spoke Sept. 14 at the 2004 Vision Conference sponsored by the Government Electronics and Information Technology Association, an industry trade group in Arlington, Va.

Croom said the Air Forces 4,400 aircraft primarily rely on voice as their means of communications. He said the services fleet will not achieve fully capable network and data centricity until 2009.

Link 16 transmits voice, data and navigational information at a rate of 126 kilobits/sec to Army, Navy and Air Force vehicles and units equipped with the common communications link. By accessing command and control networks, the system gives warfighters a picture of the battlefield, including the positions of enemy forces, targets and threats.

此篇報導說 Northrop 贏得美國空軍的戰場管理指控系統 Battle Management Command and Control (BMC2) 的合約，他們將用商業科技的資訊處理速度優勢使戰機可以迅速攻擊較小的機動目標。

Northrop 誇口說他們會 deliver to the Air Force a transformational system
that will play a pivotal role in the multidimensional battlefield.

BMC2 將會自動處理 可穿過雲層及樹木的感應器、雷達所偵策目標的相關資訊。
未來會放到 E-10A 上。

空軍官員說這是美軍網路中樞及聯合作戰準則被後的動力﹕
With onboard BMC2, the E-10A has the people, processes and technology to
receive and process information, evaluate it and then act on it in real
time to execute the air battle for the joint commander, said Lt. Gen. William
Hobbins, the Air Forces deputy chief of staff for warfighting integration.

該系統將會聯結與網絡共通的海陸空感應器。Hobbins 說 The onboard [BMC2] suite
will play a key role in rapidly correlating onboard sensor data with off-board
information so onboard decision-makers can act immediately against critical
threats,