Work concerned about $14B 'delta' in FY-17 amid Russia plans

By Tony Bertuca / November 2, 2015 at 4:51 PM
Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work praised Congress for reaching a deal to give the federal government two years of budgetary certainty, but he remains concerned over the $14 billion decrease the Pentagon will have to make to its planned fiscal year 2017 request. “It's going to be harder in '17 without question,” he said during a Monday conference in Washington hosted by DefenseOne . “We calculated that we'll have about a $14 billion delta in that given year than what...

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