The Senate Armed Services Committee has proposed cutting $4.3 billion from major Defense Department weapons programs and capping procurement spending on future aircraft carriers at $12 billion to "promote accountability" in military acquisition. "The committee identified targeted reductions to wasteful or underperforming programs and reinvested the savings in high-priority needs for the warfighters," according to a summary of the committee's mark-up of the fiscal year 2018 defense authorization bill. The bill would cut Army network programs, specifically the Warfighter Integrated...
