A senior Defense Department official said this week that the deferral of high-complexity, high-cost maintenance procedures as a result of sequestration and the limits of a continuing resolution could set DOD back by as much as 18 months for every one month those restrictions are in effect. The implication from John Johns, the Pentagon's deputy assistant secretary for maintenance policy and programs, is that it could take DOD as long as nine years to fully recover from delaying work like...
