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May 19, 2009, 1:52 p.m. EST
Army dumps Future Combat Systems brigades
Reorganizes $160 billion program, spreading the tech to all brigades
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By Christopher Hinton, MarketWatch
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Nearly six years after its official start, the U.S. Defense Department said Tuesday it will end its effort to modernize the Army though the Future Combat Systems program, opting instead for a more piecemeal and less costly approach.
The $160 billion program intended develop new FCS brigades that would have the technology to link infantry, air support, transport, and reconnaissance through computer and satellite networks. It included combat and non-combat vehicles, unattended ground sensors and flying drones.
U.S. ArmySoldiers test a battlefield sensor, part of the Future Combat Systems, at Fort Bliss, Texas.
Instead of purchasing the whole program, the Army will now pick which equipment it wants to buy and distribute it to all brigades under a new name: Army Brigade Combat Team Modernization, or ABCTM. Such an approach will allow the Pentagon to utilize what works more quickly and reduce the total cost.
"It's a step that's long over due," said Laurence Korb, a defense budget analyst with the Center for American Progress. "This will be more efficient way to modernize."
The Pentagon's decision reflects comments made last month by Defense Secretary Robert Gates that the FCS program had become too expensive and didn't reflect the needs of soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
On April 6, Gates said he would cancel the $87 billion vehicle component of the program, saying the vehicles' designs hadn't kept up with the combat lessons learned in the Mid-East regarding urban warfare and roadside bombs.
The Army is now planning for a new contract to acquire the next-generation vehicles it would have purchased under FCS. The contract, with redefined requirements, will likely re-open the bidding among contractors.
But first the military will have to renegotiate the original FCS contract with Boeing Co. /quotes/comstock/13*!ba/quotes/nls/ba (BA 44.75, +0.38, +0.86%) , the prime contractor for the program along with SAIC Inc. /quotes/comstock/13*!sai/quotes/nls/sai (SAI 17.23, -0.24, -1.37%) .
The companies' likely take an earnings hit from the canceled program, said Joseph Nadol, an analyst with J.P. Morgan. Nadol lowered his full-year outlook for Boeing by 10 cents to $4.30 a share, and SAIC's by 3 cents to $1.19 a share.
Boeing declined to discuss cancellation fees for the FCS contract or whether it will bid on the new contract until after the Pentagon provides more guidance, expected Thursday.
"If the two companies participate in ABCTM as we expect, they are likely to do so under far less favorable terms," Nadol said in a note to investors.
The Army's new vehicle request will likely incorporate more features already seen in the family of Mine Resistance Ambush Protected vehicles designed to withstand roadside bombs and built by General Dynamics Corp. /quotes/comstock/13*!gd/quotes/nls/gd (GD 56.80, +1.34, +2.42%) , Force Protection Inc. /quotes/comstock/15*!frpt/quotes/nls/frpt (FRPT 7.62, +0.06, +0.79%) , BAE Land Systems, and OshKosh Corp. /quotes/comstock/13*!osk/quotes/nls/osk (OSK 11.47, +0.33, +2.96%) .
Originally conceived in the late 1990s, the Future Combat Systems was considered the cornerstone of Army modernization. Boeing and SAIC were the primes, with Lockheed Martin Corp. /quotes/comstock/13*!lmt/quotes/nls/lmt (LMT 80.02, -0.53, -0.66%) and Raytheon Co. /quotes/comstock/13*!rtn/quotes/nls/rtn (RTN 44.73, -0.40, -0.89%) building missiles and BAE Land Systems making many of the ground vehicles.
The program kicked off in 2003 and quickly ballooned to $160 billion as the Army expanded its size, scope and timeline. Over the next several years, some estimates said the final cost of the program would have cost around $300 billion with the military equipping 15 FCS brigades by 2030.
Christopher Hinton is a reporter for MarketWatch based in New York.
2. Force Protection to Open Total Life Cycle Support Facility in Kuwait
- On Monday May 18, 2009, 9:15 am EDT
LADSON, S.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Force Protection, Inc. (NASDAQ:FRPT - News), a leading developer of survivability solutions, today announced that it has signed a lease and will soon open a total life cycle support facility in Kuwait. This strategically located facility in Mina Abdullah, Kuwait includes warehousing, administrative offices, and depot services. The facility is designed to support the ongoing need to modernize, repair, service, supply, and conduct training for the Company’s deployed fleet of vehicles in Iraq, Afghanistan and throughout the Middle East and Central Asia. The Company noted that this facility will immediately and specifically enable it to greatly shorten response times for spare parts, enable it to better serve the route clearance and other MRAP programs, and will serve as a forward logistics station for staging and installation of upgrade kits. With respect to training, the Company noted that it will provide maintenance and repair training as well as Operational New Equipment Training (OPNET) to ensure that the war-fighter achieves a high level of competence with and can fully exploit the enhanced operational capabilities of the upgraded vehicles.
<!--- Insert the sidebar information -->James Grazioplene, Force Protection’s Executive Vice President, Total Life Cycle Support, commented, “We believe that this new facility will enable us to more rapidly and effectively serve the needs of our customers. It will enhance our logistical supply chain, improve our competitive position, and enable us to further increase our excellent level of operational readiness for our fleet. The ability to rapidly upgrade our fleet of vehicles, in theatre, will ensure the fastest possible implementation of new survivability technologies to the war fighter. We are also enthusiastic about the ability to train both our field service representatives and the war-fighter in critical skill areas for the operation and maintenance of our fleet of vehicles.”
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