Boeing Awaits Decision On AMF JTRS.

Boeing [BA] officials soon expect to receive the request for the final proposal revision in its competition with Lockheed Martin [LMT] for the military's next generation Airborne Maritime and Fixed Station Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS AMF).

The Defense Department FY '09 budget requests $834.6 million in research, development, test and evaluation for JTRS-Navy. The JTRS program is a DoD-wide program led by the Navy through the Program Executive Office-JTRS, located at Naval Sea Systems Command, San Diego. The FY '09 program is to design, develop and manufacture JTRS engineering development hardware and software models.

"The next step is to receive the request for final …