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Service Officials Submitted POMs to OSD This Week at Above-Sequester Spending Levels

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014

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Service Officials Submitted POMs to OSD This Week at Above-Sequester Spending Levels

The military services have submitted their fiscal year 2016 Program Objective Memoranda (POMs) to the Office of the Secretary of Defense to begin the process of adding and subtracting to develop a balanced total force, Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall said at ComDef 2014 on Wednesday. The services submitted budgets at the spending level projected in the FY ‘15 president’s budget, a higher level than would be allowable if Congress does not stop sequestration from returning in FY ’16, Kendall…

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