Lawmakers decry funding cuts for major Army communications program

By Courtney McBride / April 13, 2016 at 12:47 PM
Scores of House lawmakers have written to acting Army Secretary Patrick Murphy to criticize the service for its planned spending on the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) program. The April 7 missive , signed by a bipartisan complement of 146 members, expresses "concern" over the service's "drastically reduced request for funding of the program in fiscal year 2017." Noting the program's inclusion in the Defense Department's list of the Army's "top five modernization programs" in FY-17, the lawmakers take issue with...

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