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The Defense Department's top weapons buyer said future systems must take advantage of rapidly evolving commercial technology.

The House of Representatives has voted in favor of a fiscal 2016 budget that includes almost $100 billion in war funding for the Defense Department. 

U.S. military leadership has known the Pentagon is falling quickly behind the technological curve and opening itself to new and developing threats.

The Pentagon consulted “a macroeconomic equilibrium representation of the U.S. economy” to estimate the potential consequences of budget cuts.

Article states the nature of DoD and the defense game means strategy and planning may not always be consistent, analysts said, but it’s still important.

Article says while things look tough in the U.S. defense budget, the fate of the Afghan National Security Forces also hangs in the balance. Afghanistan doesn’t have a huge corporate defense industry to lobby on its behalf, or millions of veterans, or an indispensable global role.