Army Examining How to Mitigate FCS Cuts, Accelerate Key Efforts

By Daniel Wasserbly / May 22, 2008 at 5:00 AM
EL PASO, TX -- Army officials are deliberating how to "reorient" the service's marquee modernization effort, the Future Combat Systems, following three years of significant congressional funding cuts and in the face of House legislation that could add to those reductions, according to a service official. "There's a close-hold program where senior Army leadership is evaluating what to do about the cuts and how to accelerate FCS," Col. Gregory Martin, chief of the Director's Initiatives Group (G-8), told a handful...

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