The House Armed Services Committee is pursuing a fiscal year 2017 defense authorization bill that would transfer $18 billion of planned overseas contingency operations spending into the Defense Department's base budget to pay for increased procurements of weapon systems, according to multiple sources. A congressional aide told Inside Defense the committee "carved out" $18 billion from the Pentagon's OCO operations and maintenance account to pay for increased procurements of mostly aircraft and ships, a move that would fund many...
