Goldfein: Service chiefs 'somewhat cautious' in setting budget requests amid high expectations

By Rachel Cohen / February 7, 2017 at 12:12 PM
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein said this week he and the joint chiefs are cautiously approaching their task of building a supplemental defense budget for fiscal year 2017 as well as an FY-18 budget as uncertainty looms over long-term program funding. "I don't want to find myself in a position where I've made wildly optimistic predictions, and then made a decision with a strategy of hope that then results in a bunch of broken programs later," Goldfein...

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