Govini: Feeble future funding puts modernization plans at risk

By Jason Sherman / June 10, 2020 at 5:09 PM
Funding for U.S. military modernization priorities touted by the Trump administration's 2018 National Defense Strategy, projects that enjoyed growth across five consecutive annual budgets, is now forecast to be feeble in the Pentagon's future years spending program, according to data-science company Govini. Govini unveiled a new analysis of the Pentagon's fiscal year 2020 budget -- and prior-year spending -- that found modernization priorities highlighted by the NDS increased from $113 billion in FY-16 to $155 billion in FY-20, growth that...

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