A Congressional Budget Office report estimates that approximately 80,000 active-duty positions could be replaced with federal civilian jobs if all military branches “use the same mix of the service branch with the smallest percentage of military personnel.” CBO said in a report released Sunday that it based the estimate on an analysis of 2012 data …
Read More »CBO: DoD’s Operations & Maintenance Spending Rose 47% From 2000 to 2012
A new Congressional Budget Office report says the Defense Department’s operation and maintenance funds for DoD-wide programs and agencies rose 7 percent from 1980 through 2000 and 5 percent between 2001 and 2015. CBO said in a report released Friday that DoD saw a 47-percent increase in O&M spending from 2000 through …
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