Daniel Driscoll: “Army Transformation Initiative, we cut about $40 billion of…”

“And so what we have tried to do is earn the right for our transformation that's how we talk about it. So we've done a couple of things. Army Transformation Initiative, we cut about $40 billion of spending and real money over the period where we started. Through the next five years, we define earnings, create our budgets in these five year cycles. So $40 billion we went and created so that we could fund our transformation.” (12:33–12:41)

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