Whereas the Navy has plans to build three DDG–1000 destroyers and forty Littoral Combat Ships; Whereas the Navy is currently procuring its next-generation Ford class aircraft carrier; Whereas the Navy plans to procure 12 Columbia class submarines; Whereas the Marine Corps has plans to procure 11 LX(R) Amphibious Warships; Whereas the Air Force plans to procure 179 next-generation KC–46 refueling tankers; Whereas the Air Force plans to procure 100 B–21 Long Range Strike Bombers; Whereas the Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps have plans to procure 2,183 F–35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft; Whereas all these increases provide the individual services the ability to close critical capability gaps, while the Army does not have immediate plans for any new Ground Combat Vehicle; Whereas future war, outlined by Army Chief of Staff General Mark Milley, requires a mobile protected firepower platform that can maneuver in contested domains, and maintain close-combat overmatch; Whereas future Army forces cannot be dependent on precision strike air supremacy, and must be able to sufficiently fight in decentralized units; Whereas the Army’s current plan is for the M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank and M2/M3 Bradley Fighting Vehicle— which have been in service since the early 1980s—to continue service for another 50 to 70 years; Whereas the current modernization strategy for the Abrams Main Battle Tank will take 30 years to fully outfit the Army while not solving many problems of close-combat overmatch; Whereas in fiscal years 2023 and 2024 the Army will decide whether or not to keep the current 35-year-old Bradley Fighting Vehicle in service for the next 50 years; Whereas allied and adversarial nations have made vast technological and engineering improvements that cannot be applied to our current vehicles