By Ann Roosevelt Congressional budget cuts amounting to more than $789 million between fiscal year 2006 and FY 2008 have resulted in an Acquisition Program Baseline Schedule breach for the Army's major modernization program--Future Combat Systems (FCS). Last week, Army Secretary Pete Geren was briefed by service program officials on the breach, which means that key program milestones will see a schedule slip of greater than six months, Defense Daily has learned. The program is managed by Boeing [BA] and…
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