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Official: Six-Month CR Would Delay Army’s Long-Range Cannon Program, Postpone Key Test Range Demos

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, December 4th, 2019

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Official: Six-Month CR Would Delay Army’s Long-Range Cannon Program, Postpone Key Test Range Demos

Maj. Gen. John Rafferty, director of the Army's Long-Range Precision Fires Cross-Functional Team. Photo: U.S. Army.

A six-month continuing resolution would cause significant delays for the Army’s plans to field the new Strategic Long Range Cannon, a lead program official told Defense Daily on Wednesday, and result in “irrecoverable time setbacks” due postponed demonstrations at test ranges. Brig. Gen. John Rafferty, director of the Long-Range Precision Fires (LRPF) cross-functional team, said there has been no impact to his portfolio of weapons programs under the short-term CR, while noting that a stop-gap funding bill extending into 2020…

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