DOD Official Acclaims TRANSCOM's Cyber, Innovation, Acquisitions Strides

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The defense logistics program is "doing what it was built to do," showing cost savings in recent years despite budgetary restraints, the principal undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics said at the NDTA's Fall Meeting. At the event, co-hosted with US Transportation Command, Alan F. Estevez praised TRANSCOM's "unparalleled" ability to deploy and sustain forces across long distances with a continued focus on acquisitions, innovation and cyber, even though fiscal year 2017-2021 budget plans could be built on the precarious 2016 budget, still in wet cement and pending congressional approval. "We're building off a '16 budget that doesn't exist, ... and whatever we get in the '16 budget is probably going to be lower than that $538 billion," Estevez said of current defense funding that sequestration cuts could pare by $38 billion.