The Pentagon is making a final effort to reclaim about $200 million in funding that House Armed Services Committee members would cut from the Army's Future Combat Systems program in their version of the fiscal year 2009 defense authorization bill. House lawmakers' recommended cuts include $101 million in research, development, test and evaluation funding for Manned Ground Vehicles and $132 million from system-of-systems common engineering and program management, according to the appeal. The authorizers would, however, add $33 million to...