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Wired News: GAO Says Army on Road to Ruin
by ryan is the supernicety at 11:44 am EDT, Apr 5, 2004

] It's been called the most ambitious military effort since
] the Manhattan Project, and the centerpiece of Donald
] Rumsfeld's plans to overhaul America's armed forces: a
] $92 billion push to change almost everything about the
] Army by 2010, from the guns GIs carry, to the officers
] they salute, to the tanks they drive.
]
] A new congressional report is alleging that the Future
] Combat Systems program is poised for major delays and a
] financial train wreck. Worst of all, the report claims,
] the Army knew this was going to happen all along.


Wired News: GAO Says Army on Road to Ruin
by k at 4:33 pm EDT, Apr 5, 2004

] It's been called the most ambitious military effort since
] the Manhattan Project, and the centerpiece of Donald
] Rumsfeld's plans to overhaul America's armed forces: a
] $92 billion push to change almost everything about the
] Army by 2010, from the guns GIs carry, to the officers
] they salute, to the tanks they drive.
]
] A new congressional report is alleging that the Future
] Combat Systems program is poised for major delays and a
] financial train wreck. Worst of all, the report claims,
] the Army knew this was going to happen all along.

[ FCS has some good pieces, from the things I've been reading, but like anything else, you have to watch your budget, and I think Rummy is trying to push too hard. Anyway, the GAO appears to think so. -k]


 
 
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