The Army's planned three-year shutdown of Abrams tank production and the resulting impact on the defense industrial base continues to agitate lawmakers on key defense committees and has drawn the attention of the speaker of the House, who intends to ask the Army secretary to review the decision, according to government officials. The Abrams is produced by General Dynamics Land Systems and hundreds of subcontractors working out of a government-owned plant in Lima, OH. But, for fiscal reasons, the Army...
