JUST IN: Budget Impasse Puts 81 Army Programs at Risk

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JUST IN: Budget Impasse Puts 81 Army Programs at Risk
7/16/2019
By Connie Lee

If funding disputes on Capitol Hill lead to a continuing resolution for fiscal year 2020, the Army would need to halt 81 new-start programs and 37 planned production increases, a top service official warned July 16.

The next fiscal year begins Oct. 1. If lawmakers haven't passed long-term spending bills by then, the Defense Department and other government agencies will likely have to operate under a CR or potentially face another government shutdown. Continuing resolutions fund government agencies at the previous fiscal year's spending levels and make it difficult to start new programs.

 â€œIf we get a year-long CR, I mean, that would be absolutely devastating,” Lt. Gen. Paul Ostrowski, principal military deputy to the assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology, told reporters at an Association of the United States Army breakfast in Arlington, Virginia. “It kills us … from an acquisition perspective,” he said. “Absolutely kills us.”

 https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2019/7/16/budget-impasse-puts-81-army-programs-at-risk