A recent Air Force assessment of the Council of Governors' force-structure proposal is a bone of contention for the National Governors Association (NGA). The Defense Department recently announced it had revised its fiscal year 2013 force-structure proposal to address the concerns of the Council of Governors, a 10-person body of governors pushing to defend the needs of the states in the wake of a $487 billion DOD-wide budget cut that spans the next 10 years. DOD initially wanted to retire...
