The White House Office of Management and Budget is exempting the Pentagon from recent guidance requiring all executive branch agencies and departments to trim fiscal year 2014 budget plans by 5 percent, according to a government spokesman. "All agencies are being asked to identify efficiencies and ways to get the most from taxpayer dollars," OMB spokesman Kenneth Baer said in a statement to InsideDefense.com today. "The Department of Defense, however, is in a unique situation as it already has...
