
The most likely outcome this year in congressional deliberations on the Obama administration’s federal budget request for fiscal year 2016 is to provide funding at levels agreed to under the Budget Control Act, which would mean the Defense Department would get far less money than it is requesting, Robert Hale, the department’s former financial chief said on Tuesday.The budget cap for the Pentagon under the 2011 law is $499 billion, $35 billion less than DoD wants in FY ’16, which…