Amid recent departures from long-standing government funding norms -- and an ongoing crackdown on information that has traditionally been available to Congress and the public -- the Pentagon, in choosing to classify its plan for spending $150 billion in budget reconciliation funds, has sparked questions and concerns in several corners of the Washington defense community. It is unclear why the Defense Department in delivering the first $90 billion “tranche” of the spending plan to Congress marked the entire document as...
