Official: Army Will Require Budget Growth To Fund Modernization, In Addition To Night Court Savings

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The Army’s push to modernize around 31 signature programs will require three to five percentbudget growth in the coming years, in addition to continued reforms to shift funds away fromlower priorities, a service official said Tuesday.Lt. Gen. Thomas Horlander, a top Army budget official, told attendees at an Association of theUnited States Army that, when factoring for inflation, the service’s new budget request for fiscalyear 2021 represents a one percent downturn in real purchasing power.“If you thought some of these decisions that we made here in the last couple of years weretough, I’ll tell you there are some really difficult decisions on the horizon. With some of thesemodernization programs as we start to pilot them and we start to want to field them, that’swhen we’re going to see some really tough decisions to be made,” Horlander said.