{"id":39404,"date":"2016-10-25T14:34:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T14:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2016\/10\/25\/30-years-future-combat-systems-acquisition-gone-wrong\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:02:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:02:48","slug":"30-years-future-combat-systems-acquisition-gone-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2016\/10\/25\/30-years-future-combat-systems-acquisition-gone-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Years: Future Combat Systems \u2014 Acquisition Gone Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s hard to overstate the disastrous effect that the Future Combat Systems (FCS) program has had on Army acquisition. Meant to catapult the service toward a new generation of ground-warfare equipment, the effort instead ended up as a textbook example of roughly $18 billion in taxpayer money wasted\u00a0\u2014\u00a0though there are still officials who&#8217;d like to believe some good came out of it, somehow. <br\/> <br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The FCS program was such a massive failure and a missed opportunity for Army modernization,&#8221; says Todd Harrison, a budget expert with the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a member of the advisory board for Defense News&#8217; 30th anniversary edition. &#8220;I think this program single-handedly set the Army back a generation in vehicle technology.&#8221; <br\/> <br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new fleet of ground vehicles were at the heart of the massive modernization effort, augmented by a smattering of tech gadgetry whose operational assumptions were \u2013 in hindsight \u2013 rather half-baked. <br\/> <br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The all-encompassing program was remarkable because there was no mechanism in place to periodically re-evaluate key assumptions, leading officials to charge forward without asking important questions along the way. <br\/> <br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The Army&#8217;s new concepts for operating during this period of time were monolithic and without alternatives,&#8221; a 2010 RAND report commissioned by the service on lessons learned from the program stated. &#8220;Concepts such as strategic and operational maneuverability \u2014 &#8216;see first, decide first, act first&#8217;\u2014which led to a tradeoff of armor protection for intelligence and decision-making, suggest that the Army did not have a clear grasp of which technologies were feasible and which were necessary and satisfactory to meet the needs of the future.&#8221; <br\/> <br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Contributing to the program problems was what is now widely considered a toxic contractor-government constellation: an industry consortium led by Boeing and SAIC was effectively put in charge of overseeing its own performance. <br\/> <br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rest is acquisition history. <br\/> <br\/> <i>This article is part of a larger Defense News 30-year anniversary project, showcasing the people, programs and innovations from the last three decades that most shaped the global security arena. 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