Marcus Weisgerber and Zachary Fryer-Biggs write Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel consulted with Alan Shaffer, the Pentagon’s acting R&D lead, and asked each of the military services to put an additional 15 percent of their individual budgets into R&D projects.
DoD intends to use its R&D funds to build new technologies for future weapon systems, according to the report.
Weisgerber and Fryer-Biggs write the military componentsâ proposed budget plans focus on operations and maintenance services in order to compensate for the sequester’s potential impacts on military readiness.