The first wave of Pentagon budget decisions has largely spared the military's major programs. The first program decision memorandum, issued in draft form Dec. 1 by the Pentagon's office of program analysis and evaluation, largely leaves intact Navy shipbuilding programs and Army plans to outfit new modular brigades with new equipment sets, according to a source who read the document, "program decision memorandum 1." Navy plans for the Littoral Combat Ship are funded and the new destroyer DD(X) remain on...
