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Navy acquisition officials are trying to take advantage of a unique opportunity to change weapons procurement practices.
BY GEORGE CAHLINK
IMAGE PHOTOGRAPHPLANNING FOR TOMORROW The Navy wants to plan long-term budgets to avoid shortchanging its future capabilities.
John Young spent more than a decade as a staff member on a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, adding and cutting money from the Defense Department's multibillion-dollar annual weapons budget. Now he serves as the Navy's acquisition chief and worries that the annual congressional give-and-take is hurting the service over the long run.
"Congress works intently on the budget one year at a time. It will be hard, but I think they can probably help us and themselves by starting to look more into the future. The chance to build a long-term budget and build it credibly is just really important," says Young, the assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development and acquisition.
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