Boeing’s Performance Passing Army Muster

Boeing Co.’s performance on the $125-billion Future Combat Systems, the Pentagon’s second-most expensive weapons program, is “very acceptable,” U.S. Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey said in an interview.

The system of faster, lighter battle vehicles linked by high-speed digital communications, unmanned drones and combat radios had been cited for “significant development and contracting delays” when the House of Representatives passed its version of the fiscal 2006 defense budget in June.