The Bush administration's concurrent program and budget reviews of the military services' spending plans will yield consistent decisions on the direction of defense programs, a senior Pentagon official said yesterday. Stephen Cambone, the director of program, analysis and evaluation (PA&E) within the Office of the Secretary of Defense, noted that in previous years PA&E would do a program review and then the Pentagon comptroller would do a budget review of the same programs. "Inevitably," he added, "some of the things...
