House Bill Would Grant National Defense Panel Access To Strategic Review

By Christopher J. Castelli / June 6, 2013 at 5:38 PM
The Defense Department will have to release the details of its Strategic Choices and Management Review to an independent oversight panel if legislative language approved today by the House Armed Services Committee becomes law. The provision, included in the fiscal year 2014 defense authorization bill passed early this morning by the committee, would require Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to release information about the sweeping assessment, known as the SCMR, to the National Defense Panel that will assess DOD’s upcoming Quadrennial...

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