The Bush administration's fiscal 2003 budget includes many projects that would rely on information technology to help the Defense Department achieve its transformation goals. The budget includes:
* $172 million to continue developing the Joint Tactical Radio System, a computer that serves as a multipurpose radio system, enabling voice and data communications across the armed services.
* $150 million for the Link-16 tactical data link system, a jam-resistant, high-capacity, secure digital communications system that will provide near-real-time data and link tactical commanders to shooters in the air, on the ground and at sea.
* $136.5 million for the Automated Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance System, a joint ground system that provides next-generation intelligence tasking, processing, exploitation and reporting capabilities.
* $77 million for the Land Warrior soldier modernization program, which would integrate small arms with high-tech communications, sensors and other equipment to make forces on the ground more lethal.
* $61 million for the Warfighter Information Network, the radio equivalent of the World Wide Web, to provide secure networking capabilities to everyone from frontline soldiers to commanders.
* $40 million for Deployable Joint Command and Control, a program for new land- and sea-based command and control centers that can be easily relocated as tactical situations require.
n $29 million for Horizontal Battlefield Digitization, which will help give U.S. forces a common operational picture of a battlefield.
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