The Defense Department's fiscal year 2014 budget request will propose a topline that exceeds the sequester cap by $50 billion to $55 billion, Pentagon Comptroller Robert Hale said today, a move that would put the request within several billion dollars of the topline DOD planned a year ago. Hale, who made the comments at a conference sponsored by Aviation Week , told InsideDefense.com afterward there are several caps in the Budget Control Act and he specified the topline would...
