Last week was the deadline for industry to respond to the Army's request for information regarding humvee recapitalization proposals/.../ Dakota Wood, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, recently told ITA that he believes recapitalization will become a popular option for military leaders and lawmakers who want to push for cheaper modernization. "Recapitalization is the name of the game these days, and i think the services will push in this direction even more as the nation's fiscal realities become harder to ignore or to kick further down the road through creative bookkeeping," he wrote in a May 19 email. "As the defense budget comes under more pressure, the services will be pressed to extend the utility of what they already have. I think this will be a significant issue once Mr. [Leon] Panetta takes the helm, at Defense."
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