'Placeholder' requests
- By George I. Seffers
- Jul 02, 2001
Pentagon officials refer to the fiscal 2002 budget as a placeholder until
they finish the Quadrennial Defense Review. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
told Congress last week that after 2002, funding for "transforming" the
military will need to rise dramatically.
Still, the budget request includes big increases for efforts that involve
information technology.
Those programs include:
| Program | 2001 in millions | 2002 in millions |
| Army digitization | $223 | $289 |
| Global Hawk unmanned plane | 166 | 289 |
| Joint Tactical Radio System | 90 | 186 |
| Joint experimentation | 51 | 100 |
| Deployable joint command and control | 0 | 50 |
| Nanotechnology | 44 | 58 |