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Analysts Expect FY ’15 Budget to Begin Creating Smaller, Technically Advanced Force

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014

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Analysts Expect FY ’15 Budget to Begin Creating Smaller, Technically Advanced Force

The Defense Department is expected to prioritize the technical superiority of its future force over the size of its current force, and evidence of that should appear in the research and development portion of the Pentagon’s fiscal year 2015 budget request, according to experts speaking at a National Defense Industrial Association and Bloomberg Government webinar. “We were hoping to see that this would be a first step in a shift towards a smaller, more technologically oriented force, and that we…

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