Official: Six-Month CR Would Delay Army’s Long-Range Cannon Program, Postpone Key Test Range Demos

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A six-month continuing resolution would cause significant delays for the Army’s plans to fieldthe new Strategic Long Range Cannon, a lead program official told Defense Daily onWednesday, and result in “irrecoverable time setbacks” due postponed demonstrations at testranges.Brig. Gen. John Rafferty, director of the Long-Range Precision Fires (LRPF) cross-functionalteam, said there has been no impact to his portfolio of weapons programs under the short-termCR, while noting that a stop-gap funding bill extending into 2020 would start to affect severalprogram timelines.