significantly affect my ability to oversee Service programs and overcome the very strong incentives and inherent bias within the military departments to be overly optimistic in their planning, particularly when budgets are tight.
Carter expressed concerns about the NDAA's impact on military program oversight.
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We're not trying to carry out a strategy that is 4 years old. We're trying to carry out our strategy of today.
We need Congress to come together around providing normal, stable, responsible budgets, because the lack of stability represents one of the single biggest strategic risks to our enterprise at DOD.
Obviously, I'm the Secretary of Defense, so I care very deeply about the defense budget.
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