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Army

GAO Finds Army Is Using Competition In Select Network Programs

Defense Daily Staff

Friday, May 30th, 2014

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GAO Finds Army Is Using Competition In Select Network Programs

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The Army is incorporating competition in various ways for most of the nine tactical networking acquisition programs the Government Accountability Office (GAO) scrutinized, though recommendations were not made in the GAO letter report released Friday. The Army has declared its tactical network as its top modernization priority and estimated the modernization may cost up to $3 billion per year into the foreseeable future. The Army's current modernization approach is intended to leverage solutions developed by private industry. Given the costs…

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