The Obama administration has proposed a five-year spending plan that exceeds spending caps by nearly $110 billion, effectively charting a course for the next administration to consider an approach that calls for growing annual weapon system investments from $183.8 billion in FY-17 to $196 billion in FY-21, according to the administration's FY-17 budget request. The Pentagon's fiscal year 2017 budget request, $582.7 billion -- $523.9 billion for the base budget and $58.8 billion for war spending -- is accompanied by...
