USAF To Address $2B OCO Shortfall By Pulling Money From Variety Of Accounts

By Gabe Starosta, Maggie Ybarra / May 3, 2013 at 5:03 PM
The Air Force hopes to pull small amounts of funding from dozens of procurement and development programs and use the money -- totaling about $2 billion -- to close a funding shortfall in warfighting expenses for the rest of fiscal year 2013, according to a draft Pentagon reprogramming request . The document, obtained by InsideDefense.com , shows that the service has chosen to fill a major overseas contingency operations (OCO) shortfall by taking money from many different areas. The first...

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