DOD Seeks Higher Transfer Authority to Fully Repay Air Force, Navy Loans to Army

By Jason Sherman / May 29, 2008 at 5:00 AM
The Pentagon this week suggested that it may not be able to fully repay Air Force and Navy accounts that are providing more than a third of the $9.7 billion "emergency" reprogramming announced yesterday to fund Army operations in Iraq and Afghanistan if Congress does not raise the cap on the amounts the Defense Department is permitted to shift between accounts. Tina Jonas, the Pentagon's comptroller, in a three-page, May 27 reprogramming action disclosed that plans to shift $3.4 billion...

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