The Defense Department must work more closely with the Army to help develop the service's Future Combat Systems, a sweeping modernization effort that relies on ancillary joint programs for its communications backbone, the Pentagon's acquisition executive said after receiving a lengthy briefing on FCS this weekend. "The Army is tackling one of the tougher issues in FCS -- the question is are we adequately tackling it and are we helping them?" John Young, under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology...
