The Defense Department is seeking congressional permission to shift $571.4 million in fiscal year 2012 spending to fund a raft of programs deemed "urgent warfighter" needs, including two Army programs to defeat Taliban tactics in Afghanistan and more than a dozen projects to enhance airborne surveillance and intelligence capabilities. Robert Hale, the Pentagon comptroller, recently sent lawmakers four previously unreported reprogramming requests to fund programs -- including a handful of new starts -- that were neither authorized nor appropriated in...
