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considering that it’s a fixed amount of money inside the DOD budget, which means sometimes other services or OSD would like to pay their bills out of our dollars if possible.


“Congress has a fixed amount of dollars they have to manage, and they have special interests that they want to look at funding as well. So the key thing [program manag- ers] need to know [is] if you’re unable to execute those dollars … don’t hesitate to offer them back to the Army. Te Army can use them wisely and then work within the appropriate [fiscal] cycles to get that money back when you do need it or can execute it. We’d rather the Army take the money than OSD or Congress.”


PROGRAMS ON PARADE If there is a muse to guide the preparation of something as dry as a J-book, it might be the congressional staffer.


In making decisions on the Army’s program funding requests—in the case of ASA(ALT), mostly procurement and research and development dollars, as opposed to the operations and mainte- nance dollars that make up the bulk of a U.S. Forces Command unit, for exam- ple—Congress dissects them down to “a very fine level of detail: which widgets, why, how many and with what parts: how many dollars on part A of the widget, how many on part B,” Miller explained. Tat is in contrast to the budgeting and distribution of operations and main- tenance funds, whereby the Army organization requesting funds for oper- ational training says more simply, “We’re doing training” and Congress assigns resources for training.


Leading this dissection process are the staffs of the key defense committees and subcommittees charged with authorizing DOD programs and approving specific


GETTING OFF THE GROUND


Capt. Kristopher Hartwell, assistant product manager for Soldier Maneuver Sensors within PEO Soldier, tests a Soldier Borne Sensor, used for aerial reconnaissance and surveillance, at the Rock Island Arsenal – Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center (RIA-JMTC) in Illinois. Whether ACAT I or ACAT IV, all acquisition programs go through the exact same process to get funding. (U.S. Army photo by Debralee Best, RIA-JMTC)


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