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The 2021 budget the Pentagon will roll out next week will include $5.7 billion in program reductions across the dozens of agencies that make up the Defense Department’s “fourth estate,” and $2.1 billion worth of additional functions that DoD wants to move from Defense agencies to the military services.

The figures are part of a summary of the Defense Wide Review Mark Esper, the Defense secretary, began shortly after his confirmation last year. Over the course of 21  sessions, Esper and Deputy Secretary David Norquist examined $99 billion in spending across DoD’s agencies and field activities.

The specific cuts and reallocations DoD is proposing won’t be known until next week’s budget proposal is released, but the Pentagon said they amounted to roughly 5.7% of total agency spending in the “Defense-wide” accounts.

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