Photos: The Army's vision for soldier tech

The Class I UAV on display in Washington, D.C., in mid-May, just as Congress was entering into its consideration of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2008. The total FCS budget request for the upcoming fiscal year: $3.7 billion. (The total eventual cost is expected to be around $162 billion.) But the program has drawn criticism both for its cost and for its technological feasibility--key questions being not just whether individual components will work as expected, but how well they'll actually accomplish the FCS goal of working together in networked harmony.