House panel would add humvee funding, cut other ground vehicles

摘要

The House Appropriations defense subcommittee has proposed funding Army National Guard humvee modernization in fiscal year 2022, despite the Army not requesting money for the program, according to a summary of the panel's draft mark released today. The draft bill would provide $100 million for humvee modernization, according to the summary. The modernization program procures new armor-capable humvees for the National Guard, which would replace aging non-armored vehicles. But the Army did not include any funding for the modernization program in the Biden administration's FY-22 budget request released last month. The program was also not included in the service's unfunded priorities list. This could be a repeat of what happened with the program in the FY-21 appropriations cycle. The Army did not request any National Guard humvee modernization funding that year, but Congress added $100 million to the program. The service plans to replace about half of its humvees with Joint Light Tactical Vehicles, but even that process is expected to last until 2042.