Pentagon Leaders Steel Themselves For Capitol Hill Conflicts

By Tony Bertuca / November 20, 2014 at 7:22 PM
Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work hopes to visit Capitol Hill within the next two weeks to discuss a way forward on some of the Defense Department's most serious budgetary challenges, particularly the fact that Congress is poised to deny the Pentagon's plan to find savings by reforming military compensation, cutting aging weapon systems and closing excess military bases and facilities amid the onset of sequestration. Work, who spoke Wednesday at the Defense One Summit in Washington, said the defense authorization...

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