Geren: FCS Remains Affordable in POM-10

By Christopher J. Castelli / July 10, 2008 at 5:00 AM
The Army's Future Combat System, as currently structured, remains affordable and faces no major changes in the fiscal year 2010 program objective memorandum aside from a funding boost to support the new focus on infantry brigades, Army Secretary Pete Geren said today. In POM-10, a budget blueprint in the works for the FY-10 to FY-15 period, FCS never exceeds more than 4 percent of the Army's procurement budget, Geren said. "And we've been working the POM issues right now, as...

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