The key to an affordable price tag for the XM-30 Mechanized Infantry Combat Vehicle -- a replacement for the M-2 Bradley that an early Army estimate pegged at $11 million a copy, three times the cost of a Bradley -- will be government-defined and -owned open software standards, said a senior service official. Bryan McVeigh, acting deputy ground combat systems program executive officer, said the Army expects reduced reliance on a single vendor for integration of new capabilities -- made...
