Hours after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and senior Army officials revealed a sweeping reorganization that will merge Army Futures Command with Training and Doctrine Command and end production of the M10 Booker light tank, a two-star Army general has informed staff that the service plans to stop work on the troubled Robotic Combat Vehicle program and pause its new howitzer competition, Ashley Roque of Breaking Defense reports, citing multiple military and industry sources. The publication previously reported that industry sources had been informed of Textron (TXT) Systems’ Ripsaw 3 winning the RCV competition, with the Army preparing to finalize a contract with the selected vendor, but around the same time, Army leadership flagged the RCV program for cancellation as part of an 8% budget realignment aimed at shifting funds toward higher-priority efforts, a service official tells Breaking Defense.
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