US budget: land systems stabilise
After years of ups and downs the ground procurement budget for the US military has achieved some stability.
The US Army, which will receive the bulk of the $8.2 billion request for FY2016, is getting back on an even footing following the reductions in expenditure that followed the withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan.
It is taking the opportunity to push ahead with some modernisation programmes that have been in the works for some time.
Ryan Peoples, a principal at Renaissance Strategic Advisers told Shephard that the US Army is now able to proceed with the modernisation of vehicles that they
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