"“Future Combat System (FCS) Spin Out Early-Infantry Brigade Combat Team” (E-IBCT)" is a U.S. army modernization program for which a claque translation will suffice.

The Future Combat System (FCS) was a multiyear, multibillion dollar program at the heart of the Army’s transformation efforts. It was to be the Army’s major research, development, and acquisition program, consisting of 14 manned and unmanned systems tied together by an extensive communications and information network. FCS was intended to replace current systems such as the M-1 Abrams tank and the M-2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle. The FCS program has been characterized by the Army and others as a high-risk venture because of the advanced technologies involved and the challenge of networking all of the FCS subsystems together so that FCS-equipped units could function as intended.
In October 2009, the Army announced a new BCT modernization strategy to implement Gates’s restructuring announcement. Some of the key tenets of this strategy are as follows:

1. Deliver capability packages consisting of key FCS technologies and warfighter urgent requirements in two year increments. The Army plans to expand the fielding of these capability packages to all BCTs by 2025.
2. Get some FCS spin-outs—capabilities from the FCS program aimed at the current force—to the field in the FY2011-FY2012 capabilities package.
3. Upgrade select core Army systems.
4. Fully integrate Mine-Resistant, Ambush-Protected (MRAP) Vehicles into formations.
5. Develop a Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV) concept focused on building a versatile platform incorporating combat lessons learned, and field the system by
2017.


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