Posted on 04/11/2020 12:16:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Pentagon is pushing back against a new law requiring that it compile data from 5-year spending plans into a single public digital database.
The Department of Defense has yet to comply with the 2018 legislation and now wants to overturn it, saying that the database could be mined and classified information inferred, revealing important strategic information to America’s foes.
However, some analysts and politicians have shown distaste for the Pentagon’s proposal to unpick the new requirement, saying such transparency ultimately will strengthen the military’s strategic hand.
Every year, the Department of Defense creates a detailed classified projection of spending for the next five years—the Future Years Defense Program (FYDP)—for its own internal planning purposes.
Information from that program, with its complex coding system, is made available to Congress along with the annual budget proposal proper.
“The FYDP is generally submitted to the congressional committees with jurisdiction over defense matters, “according to the Congressional Research Service. “While the data structure of the FYDP is unclassified, the actual FYDP data is classified.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...
China probably knows anyway.
Ridiculous. We can’t share this info with our enemies (e.g. Schiff, Nancy, Schumert).
Isn’t that the type of thing that the Red Chinese would love to know?
I'm sure that they were her handler notwithstanding her protestations of innocence !!
The question is, why isn’t there already such a database for the parts of the bureaucracy that do not relate to national defense? Or for what congress spends on itself?
Ask DiFi - she probably has a few bids in as we speak...
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