The move would fund shortfalls in war-related costs, including removing equipment from Afghanistan, by decreasing funding for ground combat vehicles, helicopters, aircraft, radios and network systems, among other items.
The letter comes a month after the Falls Church, Va.-based defense contractor and its subcontractors deployed hundreds of lobbyists on Capitol Hill to lobby against the Army’s proposal to shift funding from WIN-T and other acquisition programs.
The issues dominated a hearing at which Air Force Secretary Michael Donley and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh sought to highlight the harmful effects of automatic budget cuts known as sequestration.
Sea service leaders work to pivot their forces to the Pacific as they balance sequestration cuts and and offer military options on Syria and North Korea.
The Pentagon announced more than 200 contracts with a combined value of almost $19 billion in April, according to a Military.com analysis.
The service is facing a potential funding shortfall of more than $15 billion this year.
The Air Force would gain at least $4.65 billion under the Defense Department’s fiscal 2014 budget — the only year-over-year increase for any service.
The Army’s base budget is the least of the three major services and 1.7 percent less than what the service is expected to receive this year.
The White House’s fiscal 2014 budget request would reduce automatic cuts to defense spending to $100 billion, down from $500 billion.
The chief of naval operations says the Navy will boost its Asia presence despite a $10 billion shortfall this year from budget reductions.
The Air Force’s officer leading the Quadrennial Defense Review said the service needs to innovate if it wants to remain a global leader and avoid the fate of NATO.
The Army’s Ground Combat Vehicle will likely survive the next decade of mandatory defense spending cuts if acquisition officials get there way.
Lawmakers continue to work on a last minute bill to give America’s generals more control over where sequestration cuts will hit the hardest.
The Army’s G-8 warns that Congress will have no choice but to go through another BRAC should sequestration occur.
Military leaders tried to explain to the House Armed Services Committee why it waited till the end to plan for sequestration budget cuts.
Army briefing slides for an upcoming White House meeting go into detail about the impacts Sequestration cuts will have on the Army’s ability to fight in the near term.
Service chiefs have until Friday to issue their plans for sequestration to the White House, according to reports.
Extending the continuing resolution could prove more harmful to the U.S. military’s budget than the sequestration cuts, Pentagon leaders say.
House vote to delay debt ceiling debate to May gives Pentagon hope that DoD can avoid sequestration cuts and the extension of the CR.
Army Aviation officials mapped out the service’s aircraft requirements for the future on Friday at the Association of the United States Army’s Aviation Symposium and Exposition.
