
NASHVILLE—Key U.S. Army aviation modernization initiatives will grind to a halt as soon as this week if Congress fails to enact and submit for President Trump’s signature a Fiscal 2017 defense budget by Friday at midnight, leaders of that service told the annual gathering of the Army Aviation Association of America in Nashville on Thursday.Those initiatives include technology-maturation and risk-reduction work by two competing teams on the Army's Improved Turbine Engine Program (ITEP) and an analysis of alternatives for Capability…