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Budget

QDR Will Be Released With Budget Or Soon After, Will Be Fiscally Constrained

Defense Daily Staff

Friday, February 28th, 2014

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QDR Will Be Released With Budget Or Soon After, Will Be Fiscally Constrained

The Defense Department will submit its Quadrennial Defense Review to Congress either with the budget request on March 4 or shortly thereafter, though the report will not quite meet its requirement of being budget-blind. Acting Deputy Defense Secretary Christine Fox said Wednesday at the American Enterprise Institute that the QDR is “supposed to be fiscally unconstrained, it’s the strategic aspirations of the department--and we didn’t do it, that’s just the bottom line. We made a choice to make this QDR…

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