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Budget

Billions Taken From Acquisition To Support Restoring Readiness

By John Robinson

Tuesday, March 4th, 2014

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Billions Taken From Acquisition To Support Restoring Readiness

The Pentagon, headquarters of the Department of Defense. DoD photo by Master Sgt. Ken Hammond, U.S. Air Force.

The Pentagon wants to pour more money into training and maintenance for combat readiness and to continue three major Air Force acquisition programs, paying for these multibillion-dollar spending boosts by cutting an Army vehicle program and significantly scaling down several space and communications programs, according to the Defense Department’s $495.6 billion fiscal year 2015 budget request, which was released March 4. The budget request would buy “a smaller but more ready and capable force” for the country, keeping research and…

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