General Dynamics has an advantage in the competition because it led the one part of the original joint program that actually delivered on the promise of software-defined radios.
Better to put cheap software-defined radios in the hands of penetration testers who can demonstrate the insecurity of those communications than to reserve the technology only for better-funded attackers who would exploit the same wireless communications in secret.
But it will face tough competition from BAE Systems, the only company that managed to be a key player in all of the originally conceived software-defined radios that would have been used by Army helicopters, ground vehicles and dismounted troops.