The White House budget office has directed all department and agency heads to draw up plans for steep spending cuts in fiscal year 2013 by preparing budget proposals that assume 5 percent and 10 percent reductions to enacted FY-11 spending levels, reductions that if applied to the Pentagon could slash military spending to $477 billion in FY-13, a $94 billion cut to recent DOD plans. In an Aug. 17 memo, Office of Management and Budget Director Jacob Lew issued revised...
