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Former Pentagon CFO Makes Case For End To Budget ‘Chaos’

Thursday, September 3rd, 2015

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Former Pentagon CFO Makes Case For End To Budget ‘Chaos’

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, left, and Robert F. Hale, the Defense Department's comptroller, confer as they prepare to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee on the department's fiscal year 2015 budget request on March 5, 2014. DOD photo by Glenn Fawcett

The former Pentagon comptroller who had the dubious honor of ushering the Defense Department’s finances through sequestration in fiscal year 2013 is warning that the nation's security can ill afford a perpetuation of the turmoil of the past five years. “If I left you with one message…it would be one more voice crying, pleading for an end to the budgetary chaos and moving to what I hope would be a two-year budget deal so we don’t have to do all this…

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