Is IBCS Another 'Too Big to Succeed' Army Program?
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By Dan Gouré
December 06, 2018
Nobody can accuse the Army’s acquisition system of thinking small. The Army has a nearly three-decades-long history of inventing massive, highly integrated and extremely complex modernization programs that go through years of research and development, cost billions of dollars and, in the end, often produce nothing.
The earliest example of this phenomenon was the RAH-66 Comanche, intended to be a stealthy scout/attack helicopter to replace both the Kiowa Warrior and the Apache. The program began in 1991 and was terminated in 2004 after producing two prototypes and spending nearly $7 billion.
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