The House Armed Services air and land forces subcommittee today voted to cut $200 million from the Army's Future Combat Systems program and include measures to bolster congressional oversight of the service's marquee modernization effort. The reduction is based largely on "the need to shift funding to higher-priority Army readiness needs" and the program's operation outside normal Pentagon acquisition policies, panel chairman Neil Abercrombie (D-HI) said in his opening remarks during a May 7 hearing on the panel's fiscal year...
