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Fox: FY ’15 Budget Assumes New Navy Efficiencies Will Produce Expected Savings

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Wednesday, February 26th, 2014

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Fox: FY ’15 Budget Assumes New Navy Efficiencies Will Produce Expected Savings

Former Acting Deputy Secretary of Defense Christine Fox. Photo courtesy Defense Department.

The Defense Department’s fiscal year 2015 budget submission includes many assumptions that, if wrong, could force the services to make additional cuts in manpower and platforms, the acting deputy secretary of defense said Wednesday morning. Speaking at the American Enterprise Institute, Christine Fox said that in addition to some older DoD-wide efficiency efforts that have received much attention, the services are undertaking several new initiatives that need to work out for the budget to stay intact. “The Navy, for example,…

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