Lawmakers on the Senate Appropriations Committee are criticizing the Marine Corps' plan to speed up the "development" of the Amphibious Combat Vehicle's gun variant. According to the report supplementing the panel’s fiscal year 2020 defense spending bill, Senate appropriators are not allotting any funding for the service to purchase the ACV mission-role variant, citing the Marine Corps' "troubled acquisition history" with replacing the ACV's predecessor. "The Committee understands that the Marine Corps also plans to accelerate the development of the...
