Key official sees new Army ground combat vehicle out of reach

By Sebastian Sprenger / October 22, 2015 at 4:45 PM
The three-star general overseeing the Army's modernization programs reiterated on Thursday the service's stance that commencing a new ground combat vehicle acquisition is not in the cards financially, while acknowledging that budgetary pressures aren't expected to let up anytime soon. "I don't see a lot of ways of moving money between portfolios and the monies that are available within the [ground vehicles] portfolio offsetting this kind of program," Lt. Gen. John Murray told the National Commission on the Future of...

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