US Army: Pending budget reduction leads to reduced optempo, legacy weapons cuts and slowing modernisation programmes
27 April 2021
by Ashley Roque
US Army leadership have appealed a Pentagon plan to slice billions of dollars from its budget next year to pay for large US Navy (USN) and US Air Force acquisition programmes.
If the cuts stand, the army is warning that it will not be able to meet the envisioned operational tempo (optempo) demands, its troop readiness levels will dip, legacy programmes will be on the chopping block, and it may be forced to slow down its modernisation initiatives,
Janes has learnt.
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