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Army Personnel Funding, Already 46% of Budget Request, Would Grow Rapidly if Congress Rejects Savings

Defense Daily Staff

Thursday, March 20th, 2014

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Army Personnel Funding, Already 46% of Budget Request, Would Grow Rapidly if Congress Rejects Savings

Lt. Gen. Joseph Martz, military deputy for budget to the assistant secretary of the Army for financial management and comptroller

More than $56 billion of the Army’s fiscal year 2015 budget request–46 percent–falls under the military personnel account, and if Congress rejects the Pentagon’s force structure drawdown and compensation reform plans, that percentage could grow rapidly and edge out procurement and research and development accounts, a top Army official said Thursday. Of the $120.5 billion the Army asked for, $42 billion would go to operations and maintenance, $13.5 billion to procurement and $6.6 billion for research, development, test and evaluation,…

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