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CSBA: Procurement Could See 20 Percent Boost through 2019, But Only if Congress Allows Other Reforms

CSBA: Procurement Could See 20 Percent Boost through 2019, But Only if Congress Allows Other Reforms
Todd Harrison, director of defense budget analysis at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

The fiscal year 2015 defense budget request could bring procurement spending back up to the same level as its peak in 2010–but only if Congress allows the Defense Department to exceed sequestration spending caps and take politically unpopular actions to save money, according to a new report by Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments senior fellow Todd Harrison. That budget request for the new fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1, would be a boon for the defense industry but “is…

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