Army Secretary John McHugh said today that the service expects to receive the lion's share of the Defense Department's upcoming multibillion-budget reprogramming request headed to Congress, but cautioned that the service would still face a significant deficit. The Army projects a shortfall of $7.6 billion in its overseas and contingency operations account in fiscal year 2013. On top of that, the Army has to trim nearly $7 billion from its operations and maintenance accounts in FY-13 due to the automatic...
