Monday, November 30, 2015
8:30 to 9:30 a.m.
1616 Rhode Island Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036

A Discussion with The Honorable Mike McCord, Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) and Chief Financial Officer, US Department of Defense

Moderated by
 
Todd Harrison
Director, Defense Budget Analysis and Senior Fellow, CSIS International Security Program

Despite the recently enacted two-year budget deal that raises the budget caps for defense, many long-term challenges remain unresolved in DoD’s budget: a looming bow wave of modernization programs, a dependence on supplemental war funding, higher personnel costs, and increasing demands for readiness funding. CSIS’s director of defense budget analysis, Todd Harrison, will moderate a discussion with the DoD comptroller and chief financial officer, Undersecretary of Defense Mike McCord. Mr. McCord will deliver opening remarks and then sit for a question-and-answer session with Mr. Harrison and take questions from the audience.