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Bryan Clark: DoD faces 5 strategic challenges in funding

The Pentagon didn't get everything it wanted for 2017 in the President's budget proposal. But it got a lot: $524 billion in the base, plus another $59 billion ...

Tom Temin@tteminWFED

February 11, 2016 9:07 am

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Bryan Clark, senior fellow, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments

The Pentagon didn't get everything it wanted for 2017 in the President's budget proposal. But it got a lot: $524 billion in the base, plus another $59 billion for overseas contingency operations. It's a mix of cost-cutting reforms and investments in what the brass sees as five strategic challenges. Bryan Clark, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to offer his insight.