In its mark-up of the fiscal year 2010 defense budget request, the House Armed Services air and land forces subcommittee removed the $427 million requested for contract termination costs for the canceled manned ground vehicle portion of the Future Combat Systems program. In his opening statement today, Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-HI), chairman of the subcommittee, stated that the mark does provide full funding -- $2.45 billion -- for the systems remaining in the FCS program: the communications network and the...
