The president's pick to serve as Army under secretary, testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, acknowledged the Army's struggles to modernize its platforms and committed to continued reform of the acquisition process. Ryan McCarthy appeared before the panel July 12 with three other Defense Department nominees. Committee Chairman John McCain (R-AZ) pressed McCarthy on the Army's "unbelievable" acquisition record over the past two decades, tallying a list of costly "failures" that included the Crusader howitzer and Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter...
