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Daniel Driscoll: “We cut about $48 billion in spending over the next five…”

Featuring: Daniel Driscoll, Republican | United States Secretary of the Army | National

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The Changing Character of War | Pennsylvania Defense & Innovation Summit

Published | Video Starts at 01:35

So what ATI basically was, is it was our attempt to say, we are going to stop doing things that we don't think will help the war fighter in the future. We're going to allocate those resources to new things. And so We cut about $48 billion in spending over the next five years. And then we worked with Secretary of War and Congress to reallocate those dollars to a lot of the products of all of you in the audience. (01:35–01:40)

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