Army Chief Submits $3.2 Billion Unfunded Request To Hagel For FY-14

摘要

The Army needs an additional $3.2 billion in fiscal year 2014 to alleviate readiness shortfalls caused by sequester cuts imposed in fiscal year 2013, according to a top general. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno in June sent Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel an "unfunded request memo" outlining $3.2 billion needed to reverse the decline in readiness forced by statutory spending cuts imposed in March. The shortfalls are in operations and maintenance accounts as well as select procurement accounts, according to Odierno. The Army's FY-14 budget request "does not provide funds necessary to address decaying readiness that is the result of earlier cuts made to our training programs," the Army four-star general said in written testimony prepared for an Nov. 7 hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee. "As a result, I submitted a $3.2 billion Unfunded Request Memo on 6 June 2013."