Defense Officials Ready Analyses, Contracts for Next Year's QDR

By Sebastian Sprenger / December 1, 2008 at 5:00 AM
Before President-elect Barack Obama takes office next month, Defense Department officials hope to finish work on a series of security-related, what-if scenarios that could shape the incoming administration's Quadrennial Defense Review early next year, according to a senior Pentagon official. "The point has been to ensure that a suite of [Defense Planning Scenarios] . . . are available for the next team to pick and choose among -- to use or not use" during next year's QDR deliberations, said the...

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