This week's debt-ceiling deal has rendered obsolete long-term budget plans that the armed services submitted just days ago to Pentagon leaders while raising new questions about the magnitude of cuts facing the department in the next decade. Service officials are briefing the Office of the Secretary of Defense this week on new fiscal year 2013 budget plans developed in the program objective memorandum process, Pentagon and service sources said. But the budget blueprints, including the topline figures, will have to...
