Can Army Control Costs Of Its New Weapons?
With 10 major programs ramping up from prototypes to mass production by 2026, the Army can’t just count on “Night Court†cuts to free up sufficient funds, warned the service’s three-star chief of budget planning.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on September 19, 2019 at 2:26 PM
AUSA: After decades of cancelled programs, the Army is launching its biggest modernization effort since the Reagan buildup — and the cost will almost certainly exceed the current estimates, the service’s top budget planner warned. Neither internal Army reforms like the Night Courts, nor sympathetic Defense secretaries nor congressional committees will deliver enough money to cover the gap. That puts tremendous pressure on the not-quite-13-month-old Army Futures Command to control costs the way previous generations of generals could not.
https://breakingdefense.com/2019/09/can-army-control-costs-of-its-new-weapons/
