
Congress has matched the Army’s $4.1 billion vehicle budget request in the final version of the fiscal year 2019 spending bill, while including a $200 million increase for Stryker upgrades needed to complete critical conversions to the modernized double-v hull variant.The final version of the House and Senate’s conference defense appropriations bill includes a provision for the Secretary of the Army to submit a report outlining a revised Stryker acquisition strategy to understand how the service will meet an Army…