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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
December 12, 2006
The Boeing Co.-Science Applications International Corp. program to build a new family of computer-networked armored vehicles and drones would be cut about $3.3 billion, or just over 10 percent, in the Army's proposed fiscal 2008-2013 budget, according to service documents.
The Army also proposed saving $4.1 billion more by terminating 11 systems -- $1.12 billion of that by withdrawing from a program to jointly purchase with the Navy eight, shallow-draft, high-speed transport vessels, according to the documents.
The savings -- which would be used to pay costs associated with the continued occupation of Iraq -- are itemized in charts used to brief Pentagon undersecretary for acquisition Ken Krieg on Nov. 28.
December 12, 2006
The Boeing Co.-Science Applications International Corp. program to build a new family of computer-networked armored vehicles and drones would be cut about $3.3 billion, or just over 10 percent, in the Army's proposed fiscal 2008-2013 budget, according to service documents.
The Army also proposed saving $4.1 billion more by terminating 11 systems -- $1.12 billion of that by withdrawing from a program to jointly purchase with the Navy eight, shallow-draft, high-speed transport vessels, according to the documents.
The savings -- which would be used to pay costs associated with the continued occupation of Iraq -- are itemized in charts used to brief Pentagon undersecretary for acquisition Ken Krieg on Nov. 28.