Odierno meets with Brown

WIN-T Reprogramming Shrinks As Senate Appropriators Cut FY-13 Funding

/ August 3, 2012 at 9:11 PM
A Pentagon request to reprogram $334 million away from the Army's fiscal year 2012 budget for the Warfighter Information Network Tactical program will be trimmed to only $54 million by lawmakers leery of defense job losses, according to officials. Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) strongly opposed the reprogramming request -- which would have cut the FY-12 budget for WIN-T in half -- because contractor General Dynamics C4 Systems had claimed the loss of funding could result in layoffs at a facility...

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