A House subcommittee today recommended cutting $867 million in funding for the Army's Future Combat System, as the panel began fashioning the first fiscal year 2008 defense bill under the new Democrat-controlled Congress. The cut to the Army's premiere acquisition program is part of the mark-up executed by the House Armed Services air and land forces subcommittee. The panel wants to use the money from FCS, which has experienced "serious technology, cost, and schedule problems," to improve the overall state...
