DOD Must Consider Budget 'Freeze' in FY-11 (Updated)

By Sebastian Sprenger / June 16, 2009 at 5:00 AM
Editor's note: This story originally reported Pentagon officials are exempt from an Office of Management and Budget requirement that all agencies submit two "alternative targets" in their fiscal year 2011 budget submissions to the White House. One such alternative would have to consider how agencies would absorb a budget freeze at FY-10 levels; the other alternative assumes a 5 percent cut to the FY-11 budget number, included in the FY-10 submission last month. Our original June 15 story, "DOD Exempt...

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