Senior Pentagon leaders constructing the military's new six-year spending plan this summer will employ a potentially powerful new tool that could allow unprecedented comparisons of weapon system capabilities and assist decision-makers in deciding whether to move resources between service budgets. Bradley Berkson, director of program analysis and evaluation, has at the direction of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld tagged each item in the Pentagon's future budget and program database with one of 21 standardized definitions for warfighting capabilities agreed to last...
