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Sequestration Impacts Still Unclear As Army Outlines '6-6-6' Budget Crisis

/ March 1, 2013 at 9:26 PM
The Army's top budget planners said last week the service would begin feeling the pain of a "6-6-6" funding crisis in April, pushing back against suggestions that the Defense Department is overstating the impact of billions of dollars in sequestration cuts. Maj. Gen. Karen Dyson, director of the Army's budget office, said the "6-6-6" stands for the $18 billion operation and maintenance funding shortfall the service faces in FY-13: a $6 billion gap brought on by sequestration, a $6 billion...

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