DoD Comptroller emphasizes acquisition community’s involvement in managing the defense budget
by Brittany Ashcroft FUTURE OF MODERNIZATION
An OH-58 Kiowa Warrior helicopter test-fires over the Red Desert in Afghanistan. Under the Army’s Modernization Plan 2012, Kiowa Warrior helicopters are to be upgraded from D to F models to include enhanced cockpit sensor upgrades. Cuts to the DoD budget may slow or stop some as yet-unspecified modernization programs, said Robert F. Hale, Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller). (U.S. Army photo by Sadie Bleistein.)