Cancelled Future Combat Systems Program Bears Little Of Use

The Army's recent attempts to salvage high-tech spinoffs from the canceled Future Combat Systems (FCS) program have met with limited success.

Top Army officials say only two of a half-dozen Increment 1 systems work well enough to be deployed to combat zones, Defense News reports.

One useful system is a hovering drone designed to provide soldier-level intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, Lt. Gen. Robert Lennox, the Army's deputy chief of staff, told the Senate Armed...