Summary: Nearly every program office in the Army is under pressure to cut budgets by 5% and repurpose the money for modernization. The one area where that type of cut may come easiest is in the buying of common goods and services. Rebecca Weirick is the executive director of the Services Acquisition Office of in the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Procurement. She told Federal News Network Executive Editor Jason Miller that the Army already saved more than $1 billion through category management, and that money did go to modernization. Hear more on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
