Budget Briefings

Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. James Winnefeld, the service secretaries and Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos will today provide closed, classified briefings on budget issues to both the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee, said Pentagon spokesman Capt. John Kirby. The same top-level group of defense officials will brief House committees tomorrow under the same circumstances, he added.

Another closed Defense Department briefing on Capitol Hill is also scheduled for today, which is not budget related but involves other Pentagon and military officials, Kirby said, declining to comment further on that session.