If Congress indicated it was willing to spend an additional $115 billion to maintain higher troop levels for the Army and Marine Corps and an 11th aircraft carrier in the Navy, the Defense Department would cut several “minor procurement” items from its budget plan in 2016 to make way for those preferred higher force structure levels, a Defense Department official said. Last week, the Senate and House armed services committees both struggled to understand how DoD’s fiscal year 2015 budget…
