U.S. Army plan takes fire from congress, DoD, GAO

Defense News: Why is the U.S. Army buying equipment that fared poorly in tests? That's the question the chairman of the House Armed Services air and land subcommittee asked senior Army officials at a March 10 hearing.

"It does not seem like these things are going to be ready anytime soon," Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) said after listening to Pentagon testing office officials, who outlined the problems demonstrated in last year's testing of the first increment of the Army's brigade combat team modernization program. "Why is there a budget request for procurement of this stuff in there? ...Why not just delay it for a year?"   Read Article

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