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UPDATED: Army Wants New Combat Vehicles, Helicopters ‘Substantially’ Sooner Than Originally Planned

UPDATED: Army Wants New Combat Vehicles, Helicopters ‘Substantially’ Sooner Than Originally Planned
Ryan McCarthy, the Acting Secretary of the Army, poses for his official portrait in the Army portrait studio at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, Aug. 3, 2017. (U.S. Army photo by Monica King)

The Army’s number-two civilian, who is overseeing a massive restructuring of the service’s weapons development and acquisition process, wants to push up prototyping and experimentation of new combat vehicles and aircraft “substantially sooner” than originally planned.“Some things I will be looking at here in the February timeframe is the potential … to expedite the prototyping and experimentation for Next-Generation Combat Vehicles,” Undersecretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy told Defense Daily during a Jan. 30 interview in his Pentagon office.At a…

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