In their first joint press briefing in seven months, Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James and Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh addressed the potential adverse implications a stopgap funding measure for the upcoming fiscal year would have on the service's programs and planning. While the Pentagon comptroller's office, in a May 22 memo, sought information from the service agencies on the programs that could be harmed by a six-month continuing resolution, James on Monday raised the specter of a...