BREAKING NEWS!!!
Today at Kettering Kick-Off competition's LabView workshop, an un-official revelation was announced to all workshop attendees that the new FRC controller will be the NI CompactRIO platform (
http://www.ni.com/pac/crio.htm) and programming will be via LabView.
The official announcement should be out in about two weeks. Details are being developed for training and support for FIRST teams.