US Defense Secretary Robert Gates plans to seek full funding for the army's flagship modernisation programme after scrapping an $87bn ground vehicle segment to make greater use of lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan.
In good news for co-programme managers Boeing and SAIC, Gates said the Pentagon's fiscal 2010 budget request would seek 'substantial money' to develop a revamped vehicle plan for future combat systems, the $159bn modernisation effort.
"My hope is that we can be ready to move forward in FY 11" with ground vehicles that better reflect urban warfare and other modern challenges, he told an audience at the Army War College.
Source: Army Technology
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