Army Planners Outline '6-6-6' Budget Crisis

By Tony Bertuca / February 27, 2013 at 7:40 PM
The Army's top budget planners today said the service would begin feeling the pain of a "6-6-6" funding crisis in April, pushing back against suggestions that the Defense Department is overstating the impact of billions of dollars in sequestration cuts. Maj. Gen. Karen Dyson, director of the Army's budget office, said the "6-6-6" stands for the $18 billion operation and maintenance funding shortfall the service faces in FY-13: a $6 billion gap brought on by sequestration, a $6 billion shortfall...

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