British Army equipment plans vulnerable to cuts

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Ambitious plans to re-equip and reorganise the British Army are at risk from future defence cuts later this decade, according to the UK National Audit Office (NAO) spending watchdog. In its second annual assessment of the UK Ministry of Defence's (MoD's) 10-year equipment procurement plan, the NAO revealed that British Army modernisation plans, dubbed Future Force 2020, depend on GBP4.7 billion (USD7.8 billion) of what is termed "unallocated funding" being made available to it from 2017. This is more than half of the MoD's 'head room' funds still unallocated to specific projects.