The longer the now-two-week-old government shutdown lasts, the more the Army will need to find areas within the budget to reprogram funds to keep critical programs on schedule, the service's newly appointed acquisition chief warns. Not long after Brent Ingraham was sworn in as the Army’s assistant secretary for acquisition, logistics and technology in mid-September, the shutdown began Oct. 1. With the lapse in appropriations, the Army was forced to do a “below threshold reprogramming” of funds from the service’s...
