Pentagon Test Office: Army E-IBCT Equipment Not Ready For Fielding

By Marjorie Censer / January 20, 2010 at 5:00 AM
None of the systems in the first increment of the Army's brigade combat team modernization program are ready for fielding and combat, the Pentagon's testing directorate writes in the latest version of its annual report. The document, obtained by Inside the Army , is sharply critical of the early infantry brigade combat team program, which Pentagon acquisition chief Ashton Carter reluctantly advanced in an acquisition decision memorandum last month. In particular, the report criticizes the initiative's sensors as ineffective and...

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