By Lauren C. Williams
Mar 03, 2021
The Defense Department will likely have to look even deeper for cost-savings as flat budget looms for 2022 and beyond.
Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), the chairman for the Senate Armed Services Committee, said that while topline budget numbers don't adequately reflect value, the Pentagon and military services should look for cost-savings and where reinvestments can be made.
"One of the ironies of the Budget Control Act was that it was designed to reduce the deficit but after a while it actually became a force to, I think, increase spending because Republicans want strong defense spending. We're 50-50 split and we would get strong domestic spending and ironically it led to the budget you've seen the last few years. That's now gone," Reed told reporters Feb. 24 during a Defense Writers Group virtual event.