The Defense Department has set an "aggressive" time line for the completion of its fiscal year 2014 budget request, mandating that the services and defense agencies turn in their detailed spending plans in time for an expected release date in "mid-March." In a widely distributed Feb. 5 memo, the Pentagon's deputy comptroller, John Roth, notes that DOD has little time left -- and a lot of complicating factors -- as it completes a budget request process that in typical years...
