Whilst we're on it, what's occurring with ASTOR? Seems like another decent size project that Industry can't deliver
If
this is to be believed - which is partly why I was interested in the Select Committee statement alluded to above - there is talk of deploying some of the ground element to Afghanistan to work with JSTARS. The critical path item being supposedly Bowman interoperability, for which a contract was only awarded last year it says. Hard to blame Raytheon etc. when essential elements of the system aren't ordered until 2 years after the original planned ISD!
To be honest, reading that summary it doesn't sound like there are any more significant technical hurdles, so maybe the end 08 ISD is actually going to be achieved?