The military services this week are preparing formal requests to alter the shape of the Pentagon's $511 billion base budget request for fiscal year 2009, the opening moves in a four- month process of executive branch review that could alter the Defense Department's weapon system investment plans. Each military department is required to submit "program change proposals" for FY-09 to the Office of the Secretary of Defense by Aug. 31, according to internal Pentagon budget schedules. These proposals deal only...
