Rapid Fire March 14, 2012: McCain Blocks DoD Reprogramming

• US Senator John McCain (R-AZ, SASC Ranking Member) sent a letter to the Secretary of Defense announcing he “will not support any further reprogramming requests for new, unauthorized programs except for emergency requirements” until he has received a detailed report on reprogramming from the last 2 years. Reprogramming (ab)use has apparently been getting worse, according to a McCain staffer quoted in Foreign Policy. During Ashton Carter’s confirmation hearing as Deputy SecDef in September last year, the senator had this to say on the topic: