
The Defense Department will have its Strategic Choices and Management Review (SCMR), a wide-ranging analysis of how the fiscal year 2014 defense budget will be impacted by sequestration cuts, delivered to Congress by July 1, Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said yesterday. DoD said May 30 the SCMR would not be released “for weeks.” But DoD spokesman James Swarthout said yesterday all the internal SCMR work has been performed and the Pentagon is waiting to brief Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel…