As the Army works to reform acquisition, senior leaders are seeking greater flexibility with appropriated funds -- a push that could meet with resistance in Congress. A memorandum issued Nov. 15 by Under Secretary Ryan McCarthy, then serving as acting secretary, directs the assistant secretary of the Army for financial management and comptroller to "write a legislative change proposal for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 to increase year of execution funding flexibility to enable timely program...