The Army and Navy have proposed terminating the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile program, which if approved by the Pentagon would halt the $8.3 billion new missile program just as DOD is poised to select a winner in a competition between Lockheed Martin and a Raytheon-Boeing team. In revised budget plans that reflect guidance to cut spending in accordance with an August debt-ceiling accord between the White House and Congress, the Army and Navy last month submitted fiscal year 2013 spending proposals and accompanying five-year investment blueprints that did not include funding for the JAGM program, according to government personnel familiar with the proposals.
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