Thursday, September 28, 2023
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Future Combat Systems contractor Boeing will serve as the prime for only the first three brigades' worth of FCS "spin-out" equipment, with the remaining sets to be subject to competition, according to senior Army officials.
Senior Army officials told senators yesterday that the network being developed under the Future Combat Systems program is the most critical component of the service's modernization efforts.
The House Armed Services Committee's just completed fiscal year 2010 defense authorization bill calls for an additional 30,000 increase in active-duty end strength for the Army in FY-11 and F-12.
After reaching an agreement last night, the House Armed Services Committee has decided to provide $100 million for contract termination costs for the canceled manned ground vehicle portion of the Future Combat Systems program, according to a congressional source.
The Army hosted a workshop today to discuss the future ground combat vehicle, providing a white paper to participants that details lessons learned from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey said this week that he has seen the final version of the acquisition decision memorandum that will restructure the Future Combat Systems program.
In its mark-up of the fiscal year 2010 defense budget request, the House Armed Services air and land forces subcommittee removed the $427 million requested for contract termination costs for the canceled manned ground vehicle portion of the Future Combat Systems program.
The Future Combat Systems contract will be restructured and the remaining elements of the program likely split into three parts, a senior Army official told lawmakers today.
The Army intends to field a new ground combat vehicle, to replace those canceled in the Future Combat Systems program, in five to seven years, senior service officials told Senate appropriators today.
The Army has allotted $100 million in research, development, test and evaluation funding to begin a vehicle modernization effort that will replace the manned ground vehicle component of the service's Future Combat Systems program, according to budget documents.
Even without a third missile field in Alaska, the U.S. military has the capability in hand to counter near-term ballistic missile threats, according to the director of the Missile Defense Agency.
By Labor Day, the Army's Training and Doctrine Command is slated to prepare a "concept proposal" for the vehicle modernization effort that will replace the manned ground vehicle component of the service's Future Combat Systems program, a senior budget official said today.
The Pentagon's fiscal year 2010 budget proposal, which was sent to lawmakers on Capitol Hill this week, puts the Air Force in charge of the joint C-27J Joint Cargo Aircraft program. It also reduces the total number of aircraft procured from 78 to 38.
The House Appropriations committee is recommending the addition of nearly $340 million to the fiscal year 2009 supplemental appropriations bill to buy 260 more Stryker vehicles.
The Army today announced a comprehensive study to analyze its aviation programs and assess the progress made since the service canceled its Comanche helicopter program five years ago.
Inside the Army this week reports on what the service is doing to scale back its recruitment efforts now that it has met its end strength goals early.
EADS North America and Lockheed Martin are teaming up to develop a new armed scout helicopter to meet the Army's armed reconnaissance helicopter mission, according to a company statement.
EADS North America and Lockheed Martin "are teaming up to develop a new armed scout helicopter to meet the Army’s armed reconnaissance helicopter mission," according to a company statement.
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Despite a report this week suggesting the Pentagon may end the Army's involvement in the Joint Cargo Aircraft program, service officials told frustrated lawmakers today that nothing about the service's requirement for the program has changed -- but declined to provide further details.