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Abercrombie, Others Concerned About Future Combat Systems In Tight Fiscal Climate

By Emelie Rutherford While Congress appropriated all the Army's requested fiscal year 2009 funding for the Future Combat Systems (FCS), the program is likely to face a funding crunch next year, given fiscal constraints and concerns cited by both presidential campaigns and congressional overseers such as Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii). Abercrombie, chairman of the House Armed Services Air and Land Forces subcommittee, said he continues to have doubts about the $160 billion modernization program's progress, and predicted the first planned spin…

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