More than $900M in transfers blocked

Defense Department Cleared To Move $3.9B Between Accounts

/ October 14, 2015 at 5:18 PM
Congress has granted the Defense Department a modicum of budget relief, granting permission to shift $3.9 billion between accounts as part of a reallocation of previously appropriated funds, injecting more than $350 million in additional spending into weapons modernization accounts and giving the Pentagon a green light to launch three new-start projects. On Oct. 9, the office of the Pentagon's comptroller published the final version of the pair of fiscal year 2015 omnibus reprogramming requests sent to lawmakers in late...

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