Senior Army officials reacted today to the latest Government Accountability Office report on the Army's Future Combat Systems program, disputing the report's conclusions about cost growth and the level of testing the service has completed to date. Service officials held a media briefing this afternoon to discuss the GAO report's findings with reporters. While conceding that there has been cost growth since the program began, Lt. Gen. Ross Thompson, military deputy to the Army acquisition chief, said he does not...
