Shanahan: Pentagon seeking 'headroom' for FY-20 modernization strategy

By Tony Bertuca / April 25, 2018 at 5:39 PM
The Pentagon is not planning for another significant funding boost in fiscal year 2020 and is exploring ways to make budgetary "headroom" to support a host of new modernization investments being drawn up by a new innovation team, according to Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan. Shanahan told defense reporters Tuesday at a breakfast in Washington that Mike Griffin, DOD's new under secretary of defense for research and engineering, gave him an "80 percent" modernization plan last week for the Defense...

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