With the military services' multiyear spending plans delivered to Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter this week and last, officials will now begin the process of crafting a fiscal year 2015 defense budget, all the while keeping an eye on the fate of sequestration in Congress, according to Defense Department officials. The preliminary budget deliberations, slated to last until December, entail harmonizing program objective memoranda in case spending caps mandated by the 2011 Budget Control Act remain law, or in the...
