Letters to Congress on Defense Budget Reform Covered by Defense News

Analysts Call for Bipartisan US Budget Reform

April 29, 2015

WASHINGTON — A group of 38 defense analysts and former US Department of Defense officials from across the ideological spectrum are calling for “bold action” on the Pentagon’s budget.

In an open letter posted Wednesday on a number of websites, the group laid out its goal for major cuts to the military’s infrastructure and civilian workforce to coincide with a modernization of benefits.

“Too much of the defense budget is currently consumed by institutional inefficiencies, some of which are mandated by law,” the authors wrote. “This is leaving a smaller share of the budget to pay for the manning, training and equipping of our armed forces that make the US military without peer. Now is the time to begin the hard but necessary work to close excess bases, right-size the civilian workforce, and give future service members more value in a modern pay and benefits package.”

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A Marine F-35B Lightning II from the Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 501 rolls by at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. [U.S. Air Force photo by Samuel King Jr., 9/26/14]