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WASHINGTON \u2015 The Pentagon isn\u2019t facing a government shutdown, thanks to an emergency budget extension passed Thursday<\/a>. But that doesn\u2019t mean top officials are without budget worries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s because the short-term budget deal approved by Congress, known as a continuing resolution, freezes billions of dollars in planned Pentagon acquisition programs, as well as some of President Joe Biden\u2019s top priorities to deter China<\/a>. It could be months before they move ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The continuing resolution<\/a> runs from the start of the fiscal year, Oct. 1, through Dec. 3, which gives Congress nine more weeks to pass a fiscal 2022 budget plan for the military and the rest of the federal government. However, it also stalls \u201cnew-start\u201d programs and production increases, since all budget lines simply continue at the previous year\u2019s level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exceptions can be made for \u201canomalies.\u201d But for now, the continuing resolution means a Pentagon priority \u2014 a $5.5 billion boost for the development and testing of cutting-edge technologies that could deter China \u2014 is on hold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no goodness with a CR,\u201d Rear Adm. John Gumbleton, the deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for budget, said at a public forum in August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navy officials say a CR freezes $8 billion for new equipment spending, $2.5 billion in operations and maintenance activities and $2 billion for personnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delays would hit the Air Force\u2019s 16 new-start procurements, which comprise $2.3 billion of its 2022 budget request. Among the efforts on hold would be a $300 million initiative to develop cutting-edge hypersonic weapons<\/a>, as well as production increases for the F-15\u2032s Eagle Passive Active Warning Survivability System and the Small Diameter Bomb II, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCRs immediately disrupt major exercises and training events, impede readiness, delay maintenance, impose uncertainty on the workforce, curtail hiring and recruitment actions, and induce inefficient and constrained contracting practices,\u201d Air Force spokesman Capt. Jacob Bailey said. \u201cCRs delay the implementation of new technology development in support of national security priorities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fledgling Space Force is especially sensitive to continuing resolutions. Chief of Space Operations Gen. John \u201cJay\u201d Raymond said a CR would delay plans to transfer hundreds of Army and Navy billets<\/a> as well as certain satellite communications capabilities, mission responsibilities and related funding to the new service<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAll those capabilities, all those systems on-orbit, plus the ground stations that operate those capabilities and integrate those capabilities \u2015 that all transfers over to the Space Force, beginning 1 October,\u201d Raymond said Monday at a Defense One conference<\/a>. \u201cIf there is a continuing resolution, we have to wait until that is resolved.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Navy budget requested $4.6 billion to continue building the first Columbia ballistic missile submarine, but service officials have voiced worries the program could be knocked off track by a CR. On the other hand, the program schedules for the naval aircraft and the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers allow for some leeway, they said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m always worried about Columbia, although I don\u2019t think it needs money in the first two months. But if we get to a second CR I think we would have to do something there,\u201d said Jay Stefany, the acting assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development and acquisition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But while Pentagon officials complain of CR pain, a recent Government Accountability Office report found they have actually found ways to cope with the constraints. GAO\u2019s recent review of several major defense acquisition programs couldn\u2019t find any of the delays and cost overruns that are expected to result from CR-related funding hiccups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A rendering of the future ballistic missile submarine Columbia, the first of a 12-ship class of SSBNs. (Navy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For example, the Army raised concerns in 2017 that its new Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle program would be delayed by a CR, but officials adapted by pushing a decision to go into production until after regular spending legislation was enacted for fiscal 2018. (The compressed fiscal year did mean the Army had to buy fewer AMPVs than it planned.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen we met with officials from these programs, we learned that while the Selected Acquisition Reports speculated that CRs could have resulted in program delays or cost increases, in actuality, the CRs did not affect the programs,\u201d GAO\u2019s Sept. 14 report reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The services often postpone service contract start dates and nonessential purchases or training to later in the fiscal year, though defense officials told GAO it can be hard to manage contracts and buy equipment when they don\u2019t know what level of funding they\u2019ll get.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CR includes only a few exceptions or \u201canomalies\u201d for the Pentagon, including $885 million for the Air Force\u2019s program to buy commercial microelectronic equipment, while another <\/b>would protect a program to develop jam-resistant GPS equipment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The White House requested those items along with $6.3 billion in emergency funding to resettle Afghan refugees and $895 million to repair Navy and Air Force facilities damaged by natural disasters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be atypical for Congress to include more than a handful of anomalies for DoD. Over the last 10 years, the Pentagon has asked Congress to include funding for as few as 36 anomalies and as many as 154, but it\u2019s received an average of four each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adding anomalies is a balancing act, said Todd Harrison, director of defense budget analysis at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. If the administration got all the anomalies it requested, that would reduce much of the pain a CR causes and give Congress less of an incentive to pass a final appropriations bill for the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe anomalies you normally see proposed by the White House are the programs and activities that are higher priority and more subject to disruption,\u201d Harrison said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Defense Department has adapted such that CRs tend to be \u201cjust a bit of a bureaucratic headache\u201d \u2015 so long as the stopgap measures don\u2019t go beyond six months, Harrison said. Over the last 60 years, defense has started the fiscal year on a continuing resolution 80 percent of the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will Congress stay deadlocked on the federal budget into February? Harrison said it\u2019s too soon to say, but Congress must first has to address its other high profile impasses, over the country\u2019s borrowing limit and massive packages of spending on infrastructure and other domestic priorities for Democrats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe longer they remain stuck on those things, the longer this CR will ultimately be,\u201d Harrison said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rachel S. Cohen and Leo Shane III contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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