the challenge the opportunity the plan The country’s budget environment was austere, at best. The political mood in Congress was to cut, cut and cut spending some more. The media embraced the constant posturing between the administration and Congress’ differences, but hadn’t noticed that buried in the hundreds of pages of the next year’s budget bill, the administration would be ending one of the Department of Defense’s most successful weapons systems. The budget cut would have been detrimental to the Department of Defense, U.S. warfighters, jobs and the economy in multiple U.S. cities. Congress had a track record for supporting this program, but wasn’t really aware that the administration had buried the program cut and future cancellation deep in the budget bill. We built a mult

Join for free to read