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Senate looks to pause troubled $6 billion Army wireless project

By Travis J. Tritten
Published June 29, 2017 8:41pm ET
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Senate looks to pause troubled $6 billion Army wireless project
The Warfighter Information Network-Tactical system would lose $448 million in 2018. (Capt. Brian Harris, U.S. Army via AP) | Capt. Brian Harris

A Senate committee voted this week to halt funding for the Army’s troubled effort to build a wireless communication network, just before the expected release of a Pentagon cost review of the initiative.

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