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Transcript of Future Combat Systems Roundtable     |
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(Source: US Army; web-posted May 22, 2003)
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Several top US Army commanders briefed reporters May 19 on the Defense Acquisition Board’s May 17 review and milestone approval of the Future Combat Systems program. The beginning of the transcript is posted below, as well as a link to the full transcript.
Note that non-US users may have difficulty accessing this or other Pentagon websites.
Begin Transcript
Maj. Gen. Gottardi: First of all, for those of you who don't know me I'm Major General Larry Gottardi, Chief of Public Affairs for the Army. I'd like to welcome you to the Media Roundtable for the FCS Milestone B decision.
I understand it's very short notice so I appreciate that you all were able to come.
As you may know, the DAB, Defense Acquisition Board, met last Wednesday to sort of review the progress of the FCS program and to make a decision relative to the FCS milestones. Over the weekend the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition Technology and Logistics, the Honorable Pete Aldridge, signed an Acquisition Decision Memorandum called an ADM that approved Milestone B for the Future Combat System and its entry into the systems, development, demonstration phase of the program down at the [inaudible]. So what we're going to do is we're going to talk about that today….
Click here to read the complete transcript on the US Army website.
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