What happens if the economy picks up, as we all hope it will?

There will be no mad rush to spend any funds.

can you provide your projection for annual military pay adjustments through fiscal year 2016 that contributed to your savings estimate?

since maintenance of DOD facilities requires a minimally adequate level of annual funding, why does DOD consider cuts to those accounts as an efficiency savings?

I need to make sure that we are not relying on speculative economic assumptions in order to justify budget cuts.

Only in the current climate here in Washington, DC, can an agency propose a cut in the rate of growth of future budgets and call it a triumph.

where can we find the savings of $75 million in the current budget request?

Secretary Hale, given all the shortcomings in DOD's financial management systems, I question whether the efficiencies identified in the fiscal year 2012 budget request are reliable, realistic, and achievable without a set of auditable…

DOD proposes to freeze the hiring of civilian personnel through fiscal year 2013 and to freeze civilian pay freeze through fiscal year 2012 for a savings of $25 billion over the next 5 years.

How do we put that into the permanent mindset of DOD?

We're going to have to reprogram funds from somewhere--I don't know where, for sure yet--in order to meet those.

The DOD effort to increase efficiencies will not wait for the out years.