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The Defense Department Budget for 2013

February 17th, 2012 | Add a Comment

The Defense Department Budget for 2013

On February 15, 2012, I had the chance to interview Mike McCord, from the comptroller’s office for the Department of Defense, with some other bloggers. He talked about the 2013 DoD budget that had just been publicly released. Others will provide a far better analysis than I can, but I would like to talk about how you build a budget for the DoD. Two caveats: The Congress has not approved a federal budget in three years. … Read entire article »

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