The same is true of the modernization program for the Coast Guard, an institution whose duties vastly exceed its capabilities.
In that sense, Australia is concerned about the reduction in U.S. strategic forces and the lack of a modernization program.
Baker Spring of the Heritage Foundation noted that the United States is the only nuclear power without a substantial modernization program.
Facing the demise of yet another modernization program, the Army reversed course and embraced the less demanding performance requirements of the Marine Corps.
Already, the defense secretary has signaled that he is inclined to cancel the Marines' top ground force modernization program - the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV).
In October 1995, the National Severe Storms Forecast Center was renamed the Storm Prediction Center, and as part of the weather service's modernization program, the Storm Prediction Center was moved to Norman, Oklahoma.
China's strategic modernization program is no less impressive.
Even before they did so, forty-one U.S. Senators wrote President Obama warning him that they would not support ratification of a follow-on START accord unless his budget explicitly funded a modernization program for our deterrent forces.
This happens also to be the stated view of forty-one United States Senators who warned President Obama in writing last month not to bring forward his START follow-on treaty without such a comprehensive - and funded - modernization program.
It seems unlikely that even with his electoral landslide Ronald Reagan would have been able to accomplish his vital defense modernization program, whose legacy the U.S. military and successive Presidents have continued to draw upon to this day, without making that initiative a centerpiece of his 1980 election campaign.
He had complained frequently that the Air Force was not getting ground forces the reconnaissance support they needed in overseas conflicts, and there was continuous friction over modernization priorities (Gates eventually terminated a fighter program championed by the purged Air Force leaders).
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