CNO: Services Must Band Together To Extend Wartime Funding

By Lara Seligman / February 26, 2015 at 3:13 PM
The chief of naval operations is urging the three military services to band together to extend supplemental wartime funding, despite the Pentagon's recent decision to begin phasing overseas contingency operations costs into the base budget beginning in fiscal year 2017. Although it may not be called OCO in the future, a need still exists for a supplemental account, separate from the baseline budget, that the Pentagon can draw from to support "emergent" operations, CNO Adm. Jonathan Greenert said during a...

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