The Class I UAV on display in Washington, D.C., in mid-May, just as Congress was entering into its consideration of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2008. The total FCS budget request for the upcoming fiscal year: $3.7 billion. (The total eventual cost is expected to be around $162 billion.) But the program has drawn criticism both for its cost and for its technological feasibility--key questions being not just whether individual components will work as expected, but how well they'll actually accomplish the FCS goal of working together in networked harmony.
Photo by Eamonn Bourke/U.S. Army
