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Army Continues To Examine FCS Structure, Will Not Fund Some Elements In New Five-Year Plan

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Monday, July 14th, 2008

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By Marina Malenic The Army will not include funding for several parts of its massive modernization effort, the Future Combat Systems (FCS) program, in its next five-year spending plan, an Army source tells Defense Daily. The service has organized the $160 billion program into "spin outs," whereby individual technologies will be fielded in small groupings as they mature. Three spin outs are currently planned, but the Army will only include funding for two of those in a pending budget document,…

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