Gates in official portrait wants depicted an MRAP vehicle that saved many U.S. lives. Weapons czar Ash Carter gave him a goodbye model. @ACapaccio
Marines eye 2025 fielding of 3 new, mobile air defense systems
“We are on track from a programmatic standpoint — cost, schedule performance — but we’re always gonna be late to need,” said Col. Andrew Konicki, the program manager for Ground Based Air Defense (GBAD). “The threat is ever changing and ever evolving.”