The Army realigned “just north” of $30 billion in its forthcoming five-year spending plan to fund its top modernization priorities, about $6 billion more than its original goal, the service’s undersecretary said Feb. 26.
Speaking at an Association of the United States Army event in Arlington, Virginia, Ryan McCarthy said $8 billion of the realignment will come from “cost avoidance” efforts and $22 billion will come from proposed program “cuts or terminations.” McCarthy declined to specify the initiatives that will be terminated in future budget requests.
“As you approach the end of this [future years defense program], you’ll see a shift towards the new development of new weapons systems,” he said. It will be a “pretty dramatic shift in the ratio between legacy and developmental programs,” he noted.
