The Army plans to use some money in fiscal year 2017 to finance survivability-enhancing pilot projects on its key combat-vehicle fleets, to include experiments with commercial active-protection systems, according to officials and budget documents. "We're looking at both what our [science-and technology] community does . . . and what our allied nations are doing," Maj. Gen. Neil Thurgood told reporters at a Feb. 10 media roundtable devoted to the new budget proposal. "We want to tie those together. We don't...
