he explains the tensions very well in Budget Constraint time, the rush to cut rather than produce considered cuts based on strategic priorities, the challenges of globalization, very interesting today talking to Reps and their frustration with the strictures that ITAR imposes on them and just our luck the most onerous strictures focus on sensors, night vision and thermal. So Javelin, took a while but it's finally going to make it in the Export Market. It took a long time too, longer than we might suspect to get iAware to Italy. Hopefully, with this precedent succeding purchases will be pro forma. With complex systems like ENVG and Future Thermal Weapons, which really are of a piece, tight budgets mean governments will buy them one platform at a time until the program is finished. That said, he makes the important point that Data Fusion, that is, making the Netcentric Battlefield seamless should be priority #1. And that of course is what ENVG, iAware and Future Weapons Sight are all about.
http://www.defensenews.com/videonetwork/2759226634001/AUSA-2013-William-J-Lynn-CEO-of-Finmeccanica-North-America-DRS-Technologies
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