Army Submits Plan To Spend $90M Abrams Plus-Up; Wants 'Leaner' Production Processes

By Tony Bertuca / July 9, 2014 at 3:41 PM
The Army has sent Congress a plan for how it will spend $90 million lawmakers added to the service's Abrams tank program in fiscal year 2014 to help shore up the combat vehicle industrial base, though some of the money will go toward establishing "leaner" tank production processes, according to an internal presentation obtained by InsideDefense.com . The bulk of the funding -- $62.8 million -- would go to General Dynamics Land Systems, the prime contractor for the Abrams, to...

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