Future Combat System Facing Funding Cut

The House Armed Services Committee is sticking with the 5% cut in funding recommended by the Airland Subcommittee, and it's likely that the house as a whole will stick with the cut.

Good idea. While some of the technologies are intriguing, the program as a whole is bloated, over ambitious, over budget, and over schedule.

Full disclosure, I worked on FCS from 2003-2006.<sup>*

*</sup>Yes, I have worked everywhere. Maybe I can't hold down a job, but more likely this has been my role as "technical hit man", where you are parachuted in to take care of a specific need.