{"id":23232,"date":"2019-05-31T16:00:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2019\/05\/31\/army-freeing-up-another-10-billion-for-priorities\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T22:02:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:02:57","slug":"army-freeing-up-another-10-billion-for-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/land\/2019\/05\/31\/army-freeing-up-another-10-billion-for-priorities\/","title":{"rendered":"US Army to free up another $10 billion for priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Army is freeing up another $10 billion to apply to its top priorities in its next five-year budget plan<\/a>, according to the service\u2019s undersecretary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are about to slap the table on the [program objective memorandum] here by no later than the middle of June,\u201d Ryan McCarthy told a group of reporters during a May 29 media roundtable in his office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of a rigorous review of programs and spending, the Army set out to find $10 billion within the budget that could be reallocated toward priorities in its fiscal 2021-2025 program objective memorandum<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The money shook out through another round of what the Army informally calls \u201cnight court,\u201d a review process that freed up $30 billion in the last budget cycle<\/a> to get ambitious modernization programs off the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The night court process was inspired by similar reviews conducted under Robert Gates when he was defense secretary. Rather than make $182 billion worth of decisions in a few hours, the process is meant to establish a deliberate route to applying funds against priorities, McCarthy said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, if a program didn\u2019t contribute to a more lethal battlefield or to one of the Army\u2019s six modernization priorities, it was canceled or downsized<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\t