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Future Combat Systems, here and now

Sep 13, 2008

Not all military training takes place in the field. Here, two soldiers at an indoor workstation view FCS computer screens simulating what they might see in a vehicle. On the left are the driver's screens, and on the right, the screens for the vehicle commander.

The network is easily the most ambitious aspect of FCS, and the hardest to achieve. In a report issued in April, the Government Accountability Office offered this warning: "It is not yet clear if or when the information network that is at the heart of the FCS concept can be developed, built, and demonstrated."

Regarding FCS and other modernization efforts, Maj. Gen. Halverson said last week, "we are pushing the edge on stuff."

Credit: Photo by US Army; Caption by Jonathan Skillings