Consolidated Combatant Commanders' Wish List Set To Influence FY-14 Budget

By Jason Sherman / April 4, 2012 at 8:36 PM
Top Defense Department officials have hammered out a new ranking of the military's most acute capability shortfalls, a classified list of potential Achilles' heels intended to help drive investment decisions between fiscal years 2014 and 2018. On March 20, the Joint Requirements Oversight Council convened in the Pentagon to wrap up work on one of its most important annual tasks -- producing a consolidated list of combatant commander priorities, according to military officials. This year marked the first time combatant...

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