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Rolling Over Funds: An Easy Way to Make Pentagon More Efficient

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By Thomas W. Spoehr
| Heritage Foundation
Each year, as Oct. 1 approaches, the Pentagon engages in a frenzied drive to spend all the operations and maintenance funding Congress has provided. Any funds not spent by Sept. 30 evaporate. Strangely enough, it’s by design. Congress stipulates that nearly 40% of the Defense Department’s budget must be fully spent by the end of the fiscal year or it’s lost.
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What Congress Gets Wrong About Defending the Homeland

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By Thomas W. Spoehr
| The National Interest Verified
Soon, in an annual rite of spring, Congress will summon Pentagon leaders to testify on the “posture” of their services, commands, and department. The hearings will explore how the President’s impending fiscal year 2025 budget request will or will not support the nation’s defense. Conducting dozens of such hearings requires thousands of hours of preparation and execution by Congress and the Pentagon. But in their current construct, the time is poorly spent.
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Towards Achieving a Better Understanding of the Nation’s Defenses

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By Thomas W. Spoehr
| RealClear Defense
ADM Charles Richard, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, speaks during a briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, Thursday, April 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) Soon, in an annual rite of spring, Congress will summon Pentagon leaders to testify on the “posture” of their services, commands, and department. The hearings will explore how the President’s impending fiscal year 2025 budget request will or will not support the nation’s defense.
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