Budget mandate has PACAF prioritizing

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Budget mandate has PACAF prioritizing
By Vince Little, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Thursday, June 12, 2008

Pacific Air Forces must find ways to save millions of dollars in operations and maintenance funding starting in October 2010 to support a $3 billion modernization program across the Air Force that includes aircraft replenishment, officials said.

Col. James F. Martin, the financial management director and comptroller for PACAF, said the command’s goal is to find funding equal to about 5 percent of its budget every year through 2013.

PACAF has identified several savings initiatives that will contribute to the effort, he said in an e-mail to Stars and Stripes.

"These ... will save the equivalent of approximately 5 percent of our O&M budget beginning in FY10 and going through FY13," he said.

PACAF’s budget for fiscal years 2008 and 2009 is about $1.2 billion annually, he said.


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