CSBA in the News

Katherine Blakeley of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments asked what might be the most important question regarding the aforementioned readiness crisis: “Ready for what?”

“It’s getting to where other players can now build undersea warfare systems, and they can be effective enough. They’re not as good as U.S. systems, but they’re capable,” said Bryan Clark.

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Much of the planned modernization is nearly locked in because of the need for new weapons and because some of it is so far along, said Evan Montgomery, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a Washington-based research group.

“Cyber operations and cyber security is a sustained area of focus for the Pentagon, and they will take advantage of the opportunity to add additional resources to that effort,” Katherine Blakeley, a research fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, told Federal News Radio.

Obama fiscal year 2017 budget calls for $590 billion in Defense spending, including $58.8 billion for overseas contingency operations or war-fighting. Adjusting for inflation, the overall defense budget is down 25 percent from the peak in fiscal year 2010