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The Future Combat System has come to be regarded by some experts as the biggest mis-step made by the Army's acquisition community in modern times. InsideDefense.com reported on June 15 that once termination fees on the canceled family of networked vehicles are paid to prime-contractor Boeing, the
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Date:
7/2/2012
After September 11, the Iraq invasion, Katrina and the BP oil spill the government conducted major investigations to fix responsibility and identify lessons to learn in order to avoid a repeat. It has almost become a ritual in Washington. Yet, when a major defense program collapses and is cancelled
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Date:
2/7/2011
Not long ago, modernization of the U.S. Army centered on the Future Combat System (FCS), a networked collection of 18 ground and aerial, manned and unmanned platforms tied together by a network. When most of that program was cancelled -- except for some near-term elements that would support the
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Date:
9/14/2010


