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DoD in denial about budget future, experts say
Defense budget watchers say despite abundant evidence to the contrary, the Pentagon appears to believe it will eventually get most of its funding wishes over the coming few years. "Whether [sequestration] stays in place for nine more years is an open question, but it's certainly going to be in place for the foreseeable future," said Mackenzie Eaglen, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
Tags: sequestration , DoD , budget , American Enterprise Institute , Stimson Center , Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments , Center for Strategic & International Studies , Todd Harrison , Gordon Adams , Clark Murdock , Jared Serbu
In Depth interviews - July 30
On the In Depth show blog, you can listen to the interviews, find more information about the guests on the show each day and links to additional resources.
Tags: In Depth , Francis Rose , Vicky Schultz , Bill Woods , GAO , AEI
Small contractors could be hit hardest under planned Defense spending cuts
Small and medium-sized contractors and suppliers receive 75 percent of appropriated dollars for defense or military programs. But these small businesses, who lack the lobbying power of top- tier defense contractors, may suffer more from sequestration than big companies.
Tags: Defense , defense spending , defense contractor , defense contracting , budget , acquisition , Iraq , sequestration , Lockheed Martin , Boeing , AEI
DoD lectures Congress on budget 'rules of the game'
Defense Deputy Secretary Ashton Carter said for every dollar lawmakers add to the military's budget or for every program they continue that the Pentagon wants to cancel, it requires cuts elsewhere. He also called sequestration irrational and said DoD is not planning for it.
Tags: DoD , budget , acquisition , TRICARE , Ashton Carter , American Enterprise Institute , Congress , sequestration , industry , Jason Miller
On the show today - April 24
On the In Depth show blog, you can listen to the interviews, find more information about the guests on the show each day and links to additional resources.
Tags: In Depth , Francis Rose , Mark Gunzinger , CSBA , Tom Shoop , GovExec , AEI
Analysis: Panetta, Petraeus both 'confirmable' in new roles
Mackenzie Eaglen of the Heritage Foundation is here to offer some insight on the DoD-CIA swapping.
Tags: Heritage Foundation , Leon Panetta , David Petaeus , DoD , CIA , In Depth
Gates to detail DoD spending cuts
Defense Secretary Robert Gates was expected to spend the morning detailing for members of Congress his internal cost-cutting measures, which he said in August would save the department $100 billion over five years. Analysts said the effort was intended to preempt any budget cuts that Congress might force on the department.
Tags: DoD , management , contracting , Robert Gates , budget cuts , JFCOM , Congress , Jim McAleese , Maren Leed , Heritage Foundation , CSIS , Jared Serbu
Are recent cuts to DoD programs just the beginning?
In Depth's new series, Pentagon Solutions, takes a look at why Secretary Robert Gates is calling for the cuts of certain programs, and whether or not there might be more to come.
Tags: DoD , Robert Gates , Winslow Wheeler , Heritage Foundation , CDI , budget , Dorothy Ramienski , In Depth , Francis Rose , Pentagon Solutions
