A time of transformation
This spring, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Congress he wanted to scrap $11 billion in funding for the Army's next-generation howitzer, the Crusader field artillery system, in favor of investing
"Those transformation investments cannot be made without terminating some programs and finding other savings," Rumsfeld told the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee in May. He says tough choices remain, despite the administration's push for a $13 billion increase in the military's budget for procurement and research, development, test and evaluation, which totaled $109 billion this year.
The 2003 defense budget is the first to provide a clear blueprint for how the Bush administration would retool the military. Rumsfeld has outlined a series of transformational goals for the armed forces and says they will drive Defense procurement and research spending.
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