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Senior Army Officials Refute GAO Points On Future Combat System Findings

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Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

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By Ann Roosevelt The House Armed Services Committee today learns more about the Army-disputed Government Accountability Office's (GAO) latest report on the services' top modernization program, the Future Combat System (FCS). Some cost and technology readiness results in the report are disputed by the service and four senior Army officials that reached out to the media in a roundtable at the Pentagon last week to defend the program (Defense Daily, March 13). The Army is adapting its FCS program over…

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