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Esper: DoD Review Found $7 Billion For Higher Priorities, Calls For Return To 3-5% Budget Growth

Esper: DoD Review Found $7 Billion For Higher Priorities, Calls For Return To 3-5% Budget Growth
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper (DoD photo by U.S. Army Sgt. Amber I. Smith)

The Pentagon’s defense-wide review process has found $7 billion to shift toward higher priority efforts, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Thursday, while adding the department is still pushing for three to five percent annual budget growth to meet modernization initiatives.  Esper told attendees at a Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies event the reform effort he spearheaded included reviewing $99 billion in appropriations across the department’s Fourth Estate agencies, resulting in $5 billion in potential savings and $2 billion…

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