Carter: DOD Aiming For 'Strategically Sensible' FY-15 Budget

By Christopher J. Castelli / September 30, 2013 at 6:43 PM
Facing budgetary challenges tied to sequestration and a looming government shutdown, the Pentagon is striving to develop a "strategically sensible" fiscal year 2015 budget and Quadrennial Defense Review, Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said today. "We can't get -- and we're not going to get -- so caught up in the day-to-day tactical budget battle here that we've forgotten where we're going," said Carter, who paused before delivering a speech on U.S.-India defense cooperation to lambaste the "impeding" U.S. government...

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