The Defense Department submitted unfunded priorities lists from the services and combatant commanders that total about $36.3 billion to help mitigate the effects of across-the-board cuts and then spending caps since sequestration went into effect in fiscal year 2013. The president’s budget request for FY ’15 stuck to the congressionally mandated spending caps, though the Obama administration also proposed an Opportunity, Growth and Security Initiative (OGSI) that requests $58 billion for discretionary spending above the sequester caps in both defense…
