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Re:The US Army’s costly quest for the perfect radio by Jtsummers on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @02:29PM (#16631211)
Partially solved. Most Ham operators don't have to deal with adversaries. These radios need to stand up to jamming and eavesdropping. They also need to handle a (fairly complex) protocol automatically and in a dynamic configuration. Imagine a cell network with no tower, each phone is capable of becoming the leader. And multiple networks can exist in the same physical space. All traffic has to be encrypted to protect against eavesdropping, and frequency hopping and other techniques have to be incorporated to become jamming resistant.
Re:The US Army’s costly quest for the perfect radio by pps43 on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @02:52PM (#16631432)
APRS and packet radio existed since the '90s. They handle routing and multiple participants, and are rather resilient to interference.

There is no encryption and no frequency hopping not because it's difficult to do, but because the goal is to be heard and understood by anyone who listens.

Re:The US Army’s costly quest for the perfect radio by gamblor956 on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @03:33PM (#16631792)
APRS does not have the reliability necessary for commercial use, let alone military use. Packet radio is pretty trivially jammed, handles routing poorly and interference almost not at all.