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Army asks House to halt troubled $6 billion wireless program

By Travis J. Tritten

Published September 27, 2017 9:11pm ET

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Army asks House to halt troubled $6 billion wireless program — "I think there is real risk in moving to a new network strategy and I think we just have to have a much clearer way forward before I could support the funding changes you are proposing," said Rep. Niki Tsongas, D-Mass. (U.S. Army)

The Army told House lawmakers Wednesday it has decided to abandon a troubled effort to develop a battlefield wireless network, a program called WIN-T that has cost the service $6 billion over the past decade.

The service asked the House Armed Services Committee to strip $545 million for the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical system from the Army’s requested 2018 budget so it can instead use the money elsewhere.

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