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Troy Meink: “The FY27 budget requests roughly doubles investments in both…”

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This has been further compounded by the way we have traditionally done milcon, which results in cost more than double that in the commercial world. To reverse this, The FY27 budget requests roughly doubles investments in both MILCON and facilities sustainment restoration and modernization. which we will couple with the new authorities such as Progressive Design Build that we've gotten from Congress. Second, production, particularly of munitions. We retain enough munitions worldwide to meet mission needs. (20:50–20:59)

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