But Katherine Blakeley, a research fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, says not all companies can diversfy equally. Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin, for example, still mostly serve the Pentagon, but Boeing has a “pretty robust” commercial sector to offset a drop in defense sales.
“Trump promised to grow the military … and end mandatory budget caps, but did not address other specific initiatives or how to pay for them,” said Bryan Clark, an analyst with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, who calls the mandatory spending limits imposed by sequestration “the most significant and pervasive institutional challenge DoD faces today.”
Still, the sum appropriated through fiscal 2016 was $105.6 billion less than was projected in the fiscal 2011 defense plan, according to Katherine Blakeley, a research fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
Ambassador Eric Edelman participated in the Passing The Baton: Prioritizing National Defense In The Next Administration During The Transition at the 2016 Reagan National Defense Forum
A new study from the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, “How Much is Enough? Alternative Defense Strategies,” reports on military spending plans produced by teams from five think tanks, including Cato.
Inside the Pentagon, Mattis was known for being assertive with the use of U.S. forces, said Bryan Clark, who was a top aide to Adm. Jon Greenert, the chief of naval operations from 2011 to 2015.
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