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DoD Still Working On Strategy Review

Julie Samuel

Friday, May 31st, 2013

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DoD Still Working On Strategy Review

Pentagon leaders still are working on a wide-reaching analysis, which initially was due May 31, of how the defense budget would be impacted by sequestration cuts. Yesterday’s announcement from the Pentagon that the Strategic Choices and Management Review will not be released for weeks came as Congress is poised to start altering the Pentagon’s fiscal year 2014 budget proposal next week. President Barack Obama’s administration did not factor the $500 billion in decade-long “sequestration” cuts into that budget request--to the chagrin of…

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