
After a lengthy hiatus in modernization spending, a 'starving' Pentagon is ill suited to absorb a cash windfall under the Trump Administration, according to defense analysts.Funding for new defense technologies is expected to increase in the new administration’s fiscal 2018 budget, but an infusion of cash may not bring the Pentagon back from a decade-or-so long vacation from modernization spending, analysts say.Andrew Hunter, director of the defense-industrial initiatives group and senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies…