Almost all of the Pentagon’s nearly 800,000 civilian employees would likely have to be placed on unpaid leave for a month this year if automatic defense spending cuts go into effect in March as now planned, a top defense budget analyst said on Wednesday.
The Pentagon would need to furlough “virtually all” of its nearly 800,000 civilian employees for one month between March and September if mandatory federal spending cuts go into effect in March, according to a prominent defense budget analyst.
Todd Harrison joins a panel of experts on This Week in Defense with Vago Muradian discussing the fiscal cliff deal’s impact on the Pentagon and the defense industry.
On 11 December, the Boeing F-15E Strike Eagle marked the 26th anniversary of its first flight, but the venerable strike fighter will continue serving with the US Air Force well into the 2030s.
The era of blank checks to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is coming to an end, and the Pentagon faces a future of fewer troops and the likelihood of steep budget cuts.
The battle of the fiscal cliff is over, but the war to stop sequestration rages on – and President Obama’s decision that his new Secretary of Defense should be former Sen. Chuck Hagel, the Republican other Republicans love to hate, makes it even harder to get a deal/…/
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