Report: Air Force programs largest driver of DOD modernization 'bow wave'

By Tony Bertuca / January 27, 2016 at 11:36 AM
A new think tank report details the coming "bow wave" in the defense modernization budget, pointing to the Air Force as the top contributor to the Pentagon's climbing future acquisition bill. Echoing the conclusions of a recent report from the Congressional Budget Office , Todd Harrison, a defense budget analyst for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, has found that the Defense Department has scheduled many expensive acquisition programs to either begin or hit their stride around the same...

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