The U.S. Army can't afford to pay for its current size and buy all elements of the Future Combat Systems program, its key modernization effort, according to Representative Neil Abercrombie.
"For the Army, the fundamental choice appears to be keeping the new, larger Army we have today, or pursuing the massive list of Army acquisition programs" including the $159 billion Future Combat Systems, Abercrombie, a Hawaii Democrat and chairman of the House Armed Services Committee's panel on air and land forces, said today.
"Despite the Army's desire to pursue both goals, doing so is not affordable, and arguably unnecessary," he said in opening remarks for a hearing on the program, the Pentagon's second-most costly after the $298 billion F-35 fighter program.
Source: Bloomberg
# END
