Frost & Sullivan: U.S. DoD Spending on C4ISR Loses Steam as General-purpose Equipment Gains Traction

Frost & Sullivan: U.S. DoD Spending on C4ISR Loses Steam as General-purpose Equipment Gains Traction PR Newswire MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, July 12, 2012 - DoD spending trends point to a growth in demand for inexpensive, tried and tested platforms MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, July 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Straitened economic circumstances and troop withdrawals are expected to reduce command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) funding, restricting the Department of Defense's (DoD's) spending to applications that have direct relevance to counter- insurgency or terror operations. Planned force structure reductions, particularly for ground forces and satellite assets, will curtail C4ISR spending and instead, turn the DoD's attention to intelligence and special operations. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan (http://www.defense.frost.com), DoD C4ISR, finds that the 2013 U.S. DoD C4ISR budget request is $42.97 billion and will decline at a moderate rate through 2017. C4ISR spending is about 6.9 percent of the total DoD budget. If you are interested in more information on this research, please send an email to Jeannette Garcia, Corporate Communications, at jeannette.garcia@frost.com, with your full name, company name, title, telephone number, company email address, company website, city, state and country.