The Defense Department may have to divert as much as $27.8 billion away from programs Pentagon leaders deem essential to transforming the military in order to pay for "earmarks" added by lawmakers to the fiscal year 2007 budget, according to a DOD assessment. On top of that, senior Pentagon officials believe that DOD-proposed cost-saving transformation initiatives advanced earlier this year and rejected by lawmakers this summer will effectively force tens of billions of dollars to be spent in the coming...
