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      "id": 310116,
      "date": "2005-11-17",
      "retrieved": "2016-04-07T19:27:27.074029",
      "title": "The Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) and the Army's Future Combat System (FCS): Issues for Congress",
      "summary": "The Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) is a Department of Defense (DOD) program that would\nplay\na significant role in the U.S Army's proposed Future Combat System (FCS) program. (For a more\ndetailed description of the FCS program see  CRS Report RL32888 ,  The Army's Future Combat\nSystem(FCS): Background and Issues for Congress , by Andrew Feickert.) JTRS, envisioned\nas a\nfamily of software programmable radios, has been described as the \"backbone\" of the FCS and is\nintended to link the 18 manned and unmanned systems that would constitute FCS. Two JTRS\nsub-programs managed by the Army -- Cluster One and Cluster Five -- have experienced\ndevelopmental difficulties, delays, and cost overruns which calls into question their viability. This\nreport will be updated on a periodic basis.",
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