Lawmakers approve $648M reprogramming for Army soldier display

By Maximilian Kwiatkowski / September 21, 2018 at 4:15 PM
Congress has approved the Pentagon's request to shift $648 million to swiftly develop a key soldier system deemed a priority of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis' Close Combat Lethality Task Force. The reprogramming action, released on Sept. 20 and previously obtained by Inside Defense , will move money from the Defense Health Program's operations and maintenance account to the Army's research and development account for the the Integrated Visual Augmentation System program, formerly known as Heads-Up Display 3.0. The Army wants...

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