Inside the Pentagon highlights

By Tony Bertuca / May 10, 2018 at 10:13 AM

Some must-reads from this week's edition of Inside the Pentagon:

1. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) told Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Wednesday the Defense Department would make budgetary history under his watch. 

Full story: Mattis vows to make most of historic defense budget

2. The Defense Department has established a new line in its spending forecast to account for shifting $190 billion from war costs back into the base budget between fiscal years 2020 and 2023, according to the office of the Pentagon's comptroller.

Full story: DOD plans to shift $190B from OCO to base budget between FY-20 and FY-23

3. Defense Department Chief Management Officer Jay Gibson, who is in charge of the Pentagon's latest effort in a long history of initiatives to find business efficiencies that can be redirected to new spending on military readiness and weapon systems, says this time is different.

Full story: New chief management officer wants to redirect spending to 'tip of the spear'

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