The two-year budget deal from December was good news for the Pentagon, which had been preparing for sequester cuts in its fiscal 2017 budget submission.
But not everything was spared. Pentagon Comptroller Mike McCord said Tuesday “we had to scramble” in order to cut $17 billion from what it had planned to propose in a matter of six weeks. “Modernization took the brunt of the reductions.”
Here’s what didn’t make it into the $582.7 billion budget as compared to the fiscal 2016 plan for this year, according to McCord:
- 77 Marine Corps joint light tactical vehicles to replace Humvees
- 24 Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters by Sikorsky
- 9 Army AH-64 Apache helicopters by Boeing
- 5 Air Force F-35A joint strike fighters by Lockheed Martin
- 3 Air Force C-130J cargo aircraft by Lockheed
- 2 Navy V-22 Osprey tilt-rotors by Boeing
- 4 service-life extensions for air-cushioned landing craft for the Navy
