Army Network Gets Most 2022 Modernization $
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on June 02, 2021 at 3:27 PM A paratrooper puts together a radio. WASHINGTON: Despite cuts to Army modernization writ large, funding to upgrade battlefield networks is up 25 percent in the service’s 2022 budget request, rising $537 million to a total of $2.7 billion. That’s more money than requested for any of the Army’s other modernization priorities, said the Army’s acting assistant secretary for acquisition, Doug Bush, in remarks to industry this morning. The Army has six broad priority areas, and the network is, nominally, number four. It comes in af...
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