Military Gives U.S. Congress Its $36 Billion Spending Wish List -- Bloomberg
The U.S. military has sent Congress a $36 billion wish list for equipment and operations that aren’t in the Pentagon’s official budget for the coming fiscal year.
The list, compiled by the military services at the request of the House Armed Services Committee, was obtained today by Bloomberg News. The Army sought $10.6 billion more than the Pentagon’s proposed budget for fiscal 2015, followed by the Navy’s $10 billion and the Air Force’s $8 billion.
The results may shape the next defense authorization measure, which the committee plans to start working on at the end of this month. Representative Howard “Buck” McKeon, the California Republican who heads the House committee, this year revived a practice that started in the mid-1990s by soliciting the “unfunded requirements” lists from the military branches.
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My Comment: They are not going to get their wish .... especially not in this fiscal climate.
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