A GAO official told a Senate subcommittee that FCS' successes and failures should inform the design of future modernization efforts. The Army’s Future Combat Systems failed to live up to expectations, ...

Key Points and Summary - An analysis of the five worst weapon systems in U.S. Army history reveals a pattern of massive cost overruns, technological overreach, and comical failures. -The list includes ...

The request for information came out of the service’s new Capability Program Executive Ground as it looks to collect ways that it can quickly design, manufacture and field combat vehicles in line with ...

India seeks to join France's Future Combat Air System program, enhancing defense collaboration amid record defense exports.

The U.S. Army’s Future Combat Systems (FCS) has officially been canceled, according to an acquisition decision memorandum (ADM) released June 23 by the Defense Department’s Undersecretary of Defense ...

Stonington — Local technology firm Rite-Solutions Inc. announced Wednesday that it had secured a $243 million U.S. Navy contract for “Combat Systems of the Future,” the biggest contract award in the ...

TOULOUSE—Airbus said it is ready for a two-fighter approach under the Franco-German-Spanish Future Combat Air System (FCAS) project, with CEO Guillaume Faury declaring that now is not the time for an ...

The F-35 program cost $1.7T but early deployments exposed low readiness rates and immature software. The Zumwalt destroyer cost over $4B per ship but its main gun became unusable due to $1M per round ...

Boeing Co. and Science Applications International Corp. have picked a core team of subcontractors for the $14.9 billion Future Combat Systems contract, Boeing announced today. Boeing Co., Chicago, and ...

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