{"id":38206,"date":"2020-03-17T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T09:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2020\/03\/17\/us-army-battles-skepticism-in-congress-after-bradley-replacement-failure\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T22:56:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:56:04","slug":"us-army-battles-skepticism-in-congress-after-bradley-replacement-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/land\/2020\/03\/17\/us-army-battles-skepticism-in-congress-after-bradley-replacement-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"US Army battles skepticism in Congress after Bradley replacement failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-smg-jwplayer-video\"><atype-video-jwplayer nostick=\"true\" playlisturl=\"https:\/\/cdn.jwplayer.com\/v2\/playlists\/fCzRqMW8?tags=f0a080c3-59f6-4942-ad0b-1e824ec4032d\" poster=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/video-poster-f0a080c3-59f6-4942-ad0b-1e824ec4032d.jpg\" aspectratio=\"16 \/ 9\" mute autostart=\"false\"><\/atype-video-jwplayer><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Army&#8217;s acquisition chief recently faced tough questions on Capitol Hill about cancelling the original OMFV effort. Here&#8217;s how he defended the decision.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Army has received praise for its innovative approach to modernizing the force through its new four-star command, which reached full operational capability earlier this year. But with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2020\/01\/16\/army-takes-step-back-on-bradley-replacement-prototyping-effort\/\" target=\"_blank\">recent failure<\/a> to launch its Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle replacement effort, lawmakers are calling into question the Army\u2019s new process for developing and acquiring future capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The service faced a barrage of questions from House lawmakers during fiscal 2021 budget hearings over its decision to walk back initial plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2019\/12\/17\/did-congress-just-cut-competition-out-of-the-armys-bradley-replacement-program\/\" target=_blank>hold a competition<\/a> to replace the Bradley and start over with a new approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Army leadership took pains during testimony on Capitol Hill to stress that major acquisition mistakes are a thing of the past, citing the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle program as an example of improvement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army attempted to hold the optionally manned fighting vehicle, or OMFV, competition to replace Bradley through an effort that required industry to provide physical bid samples to the service by October last year. But when only one bidder \u2014 General Dynamics Land Systems \u2014 was able to produce an actual vehicle by the deadline, it revealed flaws in the service\u2019s acquisition process as well as a disconnect between Army Futures Command, which is in charge of modernization, and the acquisition community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a result, Congress cut the Army\u2019s OMFV FY20 budget request nearly in half before the service decided to turn its back on its previous path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Pete Visclosky, D-Ind., said in his opening remarks at the Army\u2019s FY21 budget hearing March 10 that he believes the OMFV schedule is now delayed by two years, and that the funding Congress did appropriate toward the program \u201ccould have been used to continue supporting one of the fiscal 2020 year programs that were reduced or eliminated.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis gives us great pause when evaluating the request before us,&#8221; he added. &#8220;We have been told time and again that this time it is different, yet the Army has a long history of canceling high-profile programs after significant investment of taxpayer dollars due to the incomplete requirements process.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The panel, Visclosky said, supports Army Futures Command, \u201cbut the first large acquisition program that has come out of Army Futures Command has fallen flat. You do need to convince this committee today that our continued support of modernization will eventually be a good investment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Subcommittee ranking member Ken Calvert, R-Calif., targeted both the Army\u2019s restart of the OMFV program and the deferred selection of an enduring solution for the service\u2019s indirect fires protection capability system. \u201cThese decisions have produced significant concern in Congress obviously from both sides of the aisle and industry regarding the Army\u2019s modernization process,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Calvert asked Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville and Secretary Ryan McCarthy why the service didn\u2019t stop the OMFV program before taking bid samples when it knew months ahead of the October deadline hat BAE Systems decided not to participate. And a Raytheon-Rheinmetall team reportedly went back-and-forth about whether it could submit its bid \u2014 the Lynx 41. Ultimately it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2019\/10\/04\/lynx-41-disqualified-from-bradley-replacement-competition\/\" target=_blank>unable to deliver its bid from Germany<\/a> in time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AUSA-lynx-combat-vehicle-2-web.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AUSA-lynx-combat-vehicle-2-web.jpg.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AUSA-lynx-combat-vehicle-2-web.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AUSA-lynx-combat-vehicle-2-web.jpg.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AUSA-lynx-combat-vehicle-2-web.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Raytheon and Rheinmetall are teaming up to submit the Lynx 41 infantry fighting vehicle for the competition to replace the Army\u2019s Bradley Fighting Vehicle. (Courtesy photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhy should we have confidence that this time you will get it right, especially when it seems you are returning to the normal acquisition process?\u201d Calvert asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McCarthy said the Army had a company that \u201ccould bend the metal,\u201d but the service learned that the sample fell short of requirements laid out in the request for proposals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The secretary added that the Army decided to take a step back rather than continue down a path that would have resulted in spending hundreds of millions of dollars on systems that might not have panned out \u2014 something the service has done before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think we learned earlier on this program,\u201d McConville stressed. \u201cWhat we learned was there was confusion over the requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army was \u201cused to doing it the old way where we spent a lot of time \u2014 five to seven years \u2014 developing requirements and five to seven years developing a system and then investing a lot of money in it and finding out we didn\u2019t get what we wanted,\u201d McConville added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Responded Calvert: \u201cWell, that sounds great, general, but I wonder why we didn\u2019t start this process a long time ago. \u2026 What happened?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army is \u201credefining the way we do the process to encourage innovation,\u201d McConville said, noting the service is not trying to define requirements as part of the program at this juncture, and it won\u2019t do so until there are prototypes that inform requirements. Instead, he added, the Army is laying out simple characteristics for industry to consider when coming up with designs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Calvert warned that now was the time for the Army to \u201cget a plan and stick with it\u201d because changes can cost the government money and time, \u201cand you don\u2019t have either one.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Members of the House Armed Services Committee\u2019s Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee shared similar concerns during its March 5 hearing on ground modernization efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The chair of the subcommittee, Rep. Donald Norcross, D-N.J., said he is worried about the industrial base committing to efforts like OMFV with big investments up front, and what canceling and restarting a program like that would do to industry\u2019s appetite for investing in Army modernization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHow do we keep saying to our industrial base: \u2018OK, that was a screwup, your investment\u2019s not lost,\u2019 \u201d Norcross asked. \u201cI mean, for any company to make those sort of investments, it\u2019s a risk, we understand, they knew that it was going in, but it doesn\u2019t help our case that this is a new way that we\u2019re going to do things and bringing industry along.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bruce Jette, the Army\u2019s acquisition chief, noted that the OMFV effort is not considered a canceled program; the effort was redirected down a different path. That program and other modernization efforts have seen \u201can unprecedented interaction with industry\u201d to get things correct early, Jette said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Norcross asked why the Army didn\u2019t realize earlier in the process, using industry feedback, that it didn\u2019t get requirements right before reaching the phase where industry had to submit a physical bid sample.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3000\" height=\"1875\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/24_cover_army.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-81845\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/24_cover_army.jpg.jpg 3000w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/24_cover_army.jpg.jpg?resize=300,188 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/24_cover_army.jpg.jpg?resize=768,480 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/24_cover_army.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,640 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/24_cover_army.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,960 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/24_cover_army.jpg.jpg?resize=2048,1280 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3000px) 100vw, 3000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A U.S. Army Bradley vehicle uses a defensive smoke screen charge to help conceal its movement during live-fire training on Jan. 25, 2003, near the Iraqi border in northern Kuwait. (Scott Nelson\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jette didn\u2019t address why the Army failed to reassess the program earlier, but he did say explain how the Army will now take whitepapers and then select five teams to design an OMFV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are not going to be bending metal at this point because that was one of the things that I think was part of the issue with the first one in trying to go so fast we asked for vehicle deliveries of prototypes at the very beginning,\u201d Jette said. \u201cInstead, what we need to do is we need to keep, we need to lower the bar.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new plan would allow more companies to participate because there would be less investment up front, Jette explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army now plans to analyze digital designs before even getting to a point where it would select teams to build prototypes, and the service is expected to involve soldiers who would use the vehicles immediately for feedback and input.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe digital design phase isn\u2019t a stagnant design,\u201d Jette said. \u201cThey don\u2019t just give it to us and then that\u2019s it. Each one of these vendors are going to continue to have an interactive discussion,\u201d he said, and that will involve \u201csoldier touch points\u201d similar to how the Army developed its Integrated Visual Augmentation System, which has so far been deemed a success for Army Futures Command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To those who have already invested a great deal in the OMFV effort, Jette said: \u201cI understand that it\u2019s a sting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI also understand that some of the things that they\u2019ve done are still viable and useful in the next phase.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Army&#8217;s struggle with its Bradley replacement is shaking confidence on Capitol Hill that the service&#8217;s dramatic acquisition reform efforts are actually 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