By
Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
on May 12, 2021 at 4:09 PM
Gen. Mike Murray
WASHINGTON: It’s crunch time for Army modernization, with almost two dozen high-priority programs scheduled to field tech to combat troops in the next four years. That means a major increase in costs – from science experiments to serial production – just as the budget is dropping, with the Army widely pegged as the big bill-payer.
Now, that fiscal crunch is not a foregone conclusion, emphasized the chief of Army Futures Command, Gen. John “Mike” Murray, at the annual McAleese defense conference. It “remains to be seen,” he said, whether the Army will “be the billpayer” and help fund the Navy, Air and Space Forces.