Defense Secretary Robert Gates said today the decision to cancel all of the eight manned ground vehicles in the Future Combat Systems program was the last and "toughest" he had to make in drawing up a list of fiscal year 2010 budget recommendations. During a roundtable with reporters in which Gates elaborated on the recommendations he announced yesterday, the defense secretary said he remained concerned that the program's vehicles, first designed nearly a decade ago, "had not really, fully integrated...
