The Pentagon announced that the next 5 years will save expenditure of $ 178,000,000,000

The Pentagon said Thursday that over the next 5 years to save 178 billion U.S. dollars in expenditures, but will a lot of money for other recycling projects. At the same time, the Pentagon bureaucracy will be cut the way through to help fill the budget deficit.

 U.S. Defense Secretary Robert - Gates (Robert Gates), said the Pentagon will be in part through the reduction of the number of U.S. military special way to achieve cost savings goals. He also announced that the Pentagon will reduce or cancel the weak performance of the weapons program, which includes 130 billion dollars in the Marine Corps landing craft, kind of landing craft from General Dynamics Corporation (General Dynamics Corp) (GD) design developed.

 The Pentagon's budget plan is ultimately controlled by Congress. Under the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee (Armed Services Committee) Chairman Howard - McKean (Howard McKeon) said: "I am unhappy ", and pointed out that the Pentagon plans a new scale of spending cuts than previously expected.

 Gates said the United States armed forces in the next 5 years to 100 billion U.S. dollars in spending cuts, the money will be diverted to other military projects. He said the Pentagon will be spending an additional reduction of 78 billion U.S. dollars to cover the budget deficit, of which 54 billion U.S. dollars will come from various departments within the Pentagon taken measures to cut spending and reduce from 2015 the number of troops.