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Boeing will now compete with othert companies to manage the successor programs to the Futured Combat Systems BrigadeCombat Team, a $160 billion Army modernizatiob program, the said. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates had expresserd concern about the program fieldintg new combat vehiclesthat “did not adequatelty reflect the lessons of counterinsurgency and close quarters combat in Iraq and Afghanistan,” the defensse department said.
Gates was “furthee troubled by the terms of the currentf single contract covering the wholeFCS effort,” the department Now, the Pentagon wants to replacr the old program with one consisting of a numbetr of separate but integrated acquisitiob programs. A unit of Chicago-based BA), Integrated Defense Systems is one ofthe world’s largest space and defensre businesses. Headquartered in St. Louis, IDS has several operationsw throughout the LosAngeles area.