From DoD Buzz:Word from the Pentagon is that this week should see the final version of the 2010 budget sent to the White House.
Known in lovely Pentagon-speak as the POM lock, this will mean the services are barred from screwing around with their numbers any more. At least until the next administration comes in and they start running to the new folks crying, “the wolf is at the door! The wolf is at the door.”
Several industry and Pentagon sources believe Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England are locking the POM this early (it usually happens just before Christmas, more or less) to forestall the kind of haggling that clearly had John Young, undersecretary of Defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, so frustrated last week that he actually told reporters that the services’ gaming of the system was a “cancer.”
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My Comment: This budget is going to change when Congress gets their hands on it.
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