Army Chief Accepts Risk In New GCV Acquisition Strategy

By Tony Bertuca / January 24, 2013 at 3:56 PM
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno acknowledged today that the service is incurring risk in its new Ground Combat Vehicle strategy, which calls for picking a single contractor earlier than initially planned, though he remains confident the program will be successful. "We wanted to go to two vendors for a much longer period of time to enable us to get the best product as we built the GCV, but the decision has been to go to one vendor sooner...

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