What Army leaders want out of future battlefield systems is a stable hardware enabled by powerful software that makes it easy to upgrade, integrate accessories and accomplish their tasks.
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Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on May 14, 2021 at 2:09 PM
The M113 has been in service since Vietnam but the Army needs to keep the ones it has working until they’re replaced by the new AMPV. Shown here is an experimental automated testbed.
WASHINGTON: The Army’s boxed into a budgetary corner where budget cuts would imperil a “fragile” modernization effort, topofficials warned on Tuesday.
The service has already done three years of grueling “night court” drills to winnow low-priority programs from the budget, moving over $30 billion dollars – with steadily diminishing returns. “The first year we took the low-lying fruit, and we got to the middle of the tree [in year two],” said Gen. James McConville, the chief of Army staff. “[Now] we’re at the top of the tree.”