Lockheed leads one of the teams competing for the GTN 21 award.
Just about every major information-technology firm has been vying for the GTN 21 contract.
"There aren't too many big new starts like GTN 21 every year." This program also is attractive for reasons other than companies' bottom lines, he added.
The technology that GTN 21 will bring along should go a long way to help eliminate many of the current shortfalls in GTN, said Charlie Butler, technical director at Oracle Consulting.
"That is one of the main areas of emphasis in GTN 21," said Butler.