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Army touts ability to adjust FCS to changing threats
Recent adjustments, including a new focus on infantry brigades, have helped assuage some congressional concerns.
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Obama adviser targets weapons costs, lack of oversight
Richard Danzig criticizes the Bush administration for cost overruns on programs such as the Army’s Future Combat System.
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Army's new FCS plan sparks concern over testing delays
Members of Congress concerned service leaders are being too optimistic about the timeframe for completing critical tests for Future Combat Systems.
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House Armed Services agrees to boost submarine funds
Committee resists Republican efforts to fully fund the Army's Future Combat Systems.
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Panels cut FCS by $200M, back larger military pay raise
$166M cut from Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter as well in order to fund more pressing matters.
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Authorization bill attracts contracting reform amendments
Democratic lawmakers are eyeing the House and Senate fiscal 2009 defense authorization bills as vehicles for a series of measures that would change the acquisition system, staffers and industry officials said.
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Army seeks to shift funds to bolster Future Combat Systems effort
Move of $250 million aimed at keeping program on schedule despite congressional budget cuts.
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NRO cancels contracts for proposed space radar project
Officials at the National Reconnaissance Office last week officially notified Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin that they are terminating their contracts on the troubled Space Radar development project, effectively ending a program whose support on Capitol Hill had been dwindling amid cost concerns, schedule delays and technological problems.
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