Jan. 15 a double deadline for DoD

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Jan. 15 a double deadline for DoD

David Berteau, senior vice president and director of the CSIS National Security Program on Industry and Resources, and Ryan Crotty, fellow with the International...

Francis Rose

November 13, 2013 5:47 pm

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House and Senate negotiators met Wednesday to try to move closer to a deal on a budget for the rest of fiscal 2014. The sides are far apart on numbers and they have very little time to reach a deal that prevents sequestration Jan. 15.

David Berteau and Ryan Crotty of the Center for Strategic and International Studies are looking at how a conference committee deal might impact the Department of Defense for the remainder of FY 2014 and the out years. Berteau says that Jan. 15 deadline is really a double deadline.