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A ‘Disturbance In The Force’: Army G-8 Braces For Day When Modernization Is Unavoidable

Wednesday, September 20th, 2017

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The Army’s uniformed acquisition chief senses a “disturbance in the Force,” regarding Army modernization that involves identifying an inflection point where the service can no longer effectively upgrade legacy combat systems and must transition to next-generation technologies.“New this year we will put together an ends, ways and means strategy for certain critical … combat systems in order to make sure we understand exactly when we run out of physics, if you will, on incremental upgrades and when the Army must…

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