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Times are tough for the U.S. Army. After twelve years of fighting -- the longest stretch of continuous combat in the Army's history -- its plans to rebuild are being shredded by across-the-board funding cuts. Desperate to protect soldiers in Afghanistan, it is ransacking its budget for savings
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Date:
5/14/2013
Over the past twenty years the U.S. Army has achieved a record of successfully implementing major acquisition programs virtually unblemished by success. The list of failures is quite long: Crusader, Future Combat System, Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter, Aerial Common Sensor, etc. The most successful
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Date:
6/22/2012
Despite raising tactical connectivity to its top modernization priority, the Army is proposing to cut fiscal 2012 funding for the backbone of its future warfighting network by half. Service leaders are proposing to the Office of the Secretary of Defense that $400 million of the $815 million appropriated
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Date:
5/9/2012
After spending the past three days with the Army’s latest Network Integration Evaluation (NIE), I can make three observations. The first is that today’s soldiers are absolutely amazing individuals. From privates all the way up to generals they demonstrate a combination of brains, initiative, determination,
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Date:
11/18/2011
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