Army Secretary Mark Esper has said the service has evaluated every activity and program within the “equipping peg†and identified $25B in funds that could be shifted toward its top six priorities for modernization, Defense News reported Monday.The service’s modernization priorities are the next-generation combat vehicle; long-range precision fires; network; soldier lethality; future vertical lift; and air and missile defense.
“That dollar figure is a low-end number over the Future Years Defense Program,†he said Monday at a press briefing at the Association of the U.S. Army’s annual conference.
“We had to make those trade-offs, and it resulted in, again, reductions and cancellations and consolidations, so that is our intent as we continue to go through the other pegs,†he noted.
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