Katherine Blakeley and the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments present an analytic preview of the FY2017 defense budget.
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Seven Areas To Watch In The FY17 Defense Budget
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Last month, I participated with my colleagues Jerry Hendrix and Elbridge Colby in a strategic choices exercise hosted by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments where we built an alternative 10-year budget for the Department of Defense. We assumed up front that a new Administration was able to achieve a budget deal with Congress that resulted in stable funding, a prerequisite for getting the Department of Defense back on its feet, but assumed only modest budget growth.
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Pentagon Readies $6 Billion Supplemental OCO Request
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Kate Blakeley, an analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments who previously worked at the Congressional Research Service, said splitting the $6 billion OCO supplemental between supporting troop levels in Afghanistan and the fight against ISIL would give both Democrats and Republicans "additional ammunition in the upcoming budget fight."
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Pentagon Will Need To Fund ‘Enduring Requirements,’ Now In OCO Account, Once Combat Ends
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Kate Blakeley, a defense budget analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, said the statement confirms what many people already know behind-the-scenes.
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Pentagon Will Need to Fund ‘Enduring Requirements,’ Now in OCO Account, Once Combat Ends
Inside Defense
Kate Blakeley, a defense budget analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, said the statement confirms what many people already know behind-the-scenes.
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Which Two Wars?
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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?”
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Progression of Defense Bills Again in Doubt Amid Partisan Debates
Inside Defense
Kate Blakeley, a defense budget analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, said the BBA has "broken down" for FY-17, despite the attempts of Senate appropriators to maintain it in their defense bill. "With stark differences of opinion between the House and Senate, the odds of getting either a policy or an appropriations bill before the election is very low," she said.