At War Overseas and Ming Spending Realities al Home

摘要

The Defense Department's fiscal year (FY) 2012 budget request asks for a $553 billion base budget-under which the Army's base budget was set at $144.9 billion-and nearly $117.8 billion for overseas contingency operations, starting October 1. The department's most pressing problem, however, is making it to midnight on September 30. No overall fiscal 2011 appropriation had been passed when the FY 2012 request was submitted on February 14, and the Department of Defense was contending with a cascading set of problems associated with operating on continuing resolution funding-starting with a $23 billion baseline shortfall under the continuing resolution and including hundreds of statutory limitations, many of which affect contracting and acquisitions, large and small.