AUSA Winter: Army outlines potential budget impact on NIE process
Service panelists speaking at this week’s Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Winter Symposium and Exposition in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, outlined potential impacts of imminent budgetary milestones on future Network Integration Evaluations (NIEs).
The next of the semi-annual events, NIE 13.2, is slated for April-May 2013 at Ft. Bliss, Texas, and White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
Referring to budgetary constraints of the current continuing resolution and pending sequestration, Maj Gen Harold Greene, deputy for acquisition and systems management in the Office of Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics, Technology) offered: ‘For 13.2 I don’t think it’s going
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