With only months to implement Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. John Jumper's vision of focusing service planning on seven core missions before the next budget proposal was due, service officials say the shift to capabilities-based planning had "minimal impact" on the fiscal year 2004 budget but that more significant change is expected beginning in FY-05. "The holdup was just timing -- timing and analysis," an Air Force official told InsideDefense.com in an interview last week. "Due to those two...
