ARMY EYES RELIABILITY IMPROVEMENTS IN ITS WEAPONS PROGRAMS

/ August 11, 2008 at 5:00 AM
Army officials are debating which service programs should be modified to align them with a newly mandated Pentagon policy aimed at improving weapon systems reliability, a service official tells Inside the Army . "Right now, we need to look across our portfolio of programs and determine which ones warrant a reliability growth program," Ross Guckert, the Army's assistant deputy for acquisitions and systems integration, said in an Aug. 1 interview. "Once we do that, we will look at early planning,...

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