NECC Program to Get New Shot at Milestone B Approval Next Summer

By Sebastian Sprenger / August 27, 2008 at 5:00 AM
Defense Information Systems Agency officials will spend much of fiscal year 2009 getting the Net-Enabled Command Capability program fit for a second attempt to pass muster with the Pentagon's top weapons buyer, according to a senior program official. Pentagon acquisition chief John Young early this year denied milestone B approval for NECC, the military's next-generation command and control system, citing concerns over the system's technical maturity and cost assumptions. More recently, following a July 31 program review, Young issued an...

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