The Pentagon’s fiscal year 2020 budget request assumes the Defense Department will shift $7.7 billion saved through various reform efforts, including divesting legacy weapon systems, with the money going toward high-priority “lethality” investments. DOD’s reforms saved $4.7 billion through various efforts in FY-17 and FY-18, and the Pentagon is “on track” to save $6 billion in FY-19, according to Elaine McCusker, deputy under secretary of defense in the comptroller’s office. Meanwhile, the department’s FY-20 budget request assumes “new savings” of...
