From Nextgov.com: Defense asks industry for help to cut its communications cord
The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command has asked communications companies to submit ideas for a wireless headset for the four-member crew in armored vehicles.
At a time when even children have one, if not two, wireless gadgets, soldiers in armored vehicles still communicate the old-fashioned way: through headsets mounted on their helmets and connected by a cord to an intercom system on their tanks or personnel carriers.
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