The Army has directed a reorganization of the service's research, development, and engineering centers as well as its contracting centers, having them report directly to their respective life cycle management commands. Gen. Dennis Via, the head of Army Materiel Command, issued an operational order directing the realignment on February 17. He told reporters March 15 at an Association of the United States Army conference in Huntsville, AL, that the affected life cycle management commands are Army Aviation and Missile Command,...
