Lessons from the Army's Future Combat Systems program / Christopher G. Pernin, Elliot Axelband, Jeffrey A. Drezner, Brian B. Dille, John Gordon IV, Bruce J. Held, K. Scott McMahon, Walter L. Perry, Christopher Rizzi, Akhil R. Shah, Peter A. Wilson, Jerry M. Sollinger.
The Future Combat Systems (FCS) program was the largest and most ambitious planned acquisition program in the Army's history. The FCS was intended to field not just a system, but an entire brigade, a system of systems, with novel technologies integrated by means of an advanced wireless network....
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Background of the Future Combat Systems program
- Cost, schedule, and performance of the FCS program over time
- How the Army generated requirements for the Future Combat Systems
- The evolution and adjustment of requirements after milestone B
- FCS program management
- Contracts
- Technology choices and development in FCS
- Summary
- Appendix A. Select interviewees for this study
- Appendix B. Congressional decrements and scrutiny
- Appendix C. FCS requirements data and methodology
- Appendix D. Selected technology transfer agreements between PM FCS and Army S & T
- Appendix E. Where the FCS systems are today.