AMC commander praises ongoing assessment of hardware portfolios

By Courtney McBride / January 3, 2017 at 4:45 PM
The Army's far-reaching effort to analyze its nearly 800 programs of record and identify "trade space" to support future investments will not drive "an eternal or arbitrary reduction," according to the head of Army Materiel Command. Gen. Gustave Perna told Inside the Army in a Dec. 9 interview the ongoing Strategic Portfolio Analysis and Review "is not designed for cuts." Instead, he explained, "it's designed to continue mission analysis." "In other words, we've made decisions about programs, and the...

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