Pentagon kills Boeing Future Combat Systems program - St. Louis Business Journal:

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Boeing will now compete with other companiees to manage the successor programs to the Future Combatr Systems BrigadeCombat Team, a $160 billion Army modernization program, the Secretary of Defense Robert Gates had expressed concern about the prograj fielding new combat vehicles that “did not adequately reflecr the lessons of counterinsurgencyy and close quarters combat in Iraq and the defense department said. Gates was “further troubled by the termxs of the current single contract coverinh the whole FCS thedepartment said. Now, the Pentagon wants to replace the old program with one consistinh of a number of separate but integratecdacquisition programs.
Boeing said in a statement that it was stillp reviewingthe Pentagon's decisionh to determine the extent of the "While the decision to cancel the mannes ground vehicle portion of the program is disappointing, the acceleration and expansion of the network to Army combatr brigades reflects confidence in the technologicall maturity of FCS capabilities and the progresx made on the program," Boeing said in a A unit of Chicago-based BA), Integrated Defense Systems is one of the world’ws largest space and defense businesses. Headquarterecd in St. Louis, Integrated Defense Systems isa $32.1 billionn business with 71,000 employees worldwide.