Perhaps it’s because the federal fiscal year wraps at the end of September, kicking off budget talks. Or perhaps it’s that they’re sick of talking about Iraq. Either way, defense officials are resounding the sequestration warning bells, pointing to everything from military readiness to the space race as vulnerable.

 

The two-year budget deal that essentially pushed off sequestration cuts until 2016 has led to a noticeable lull in conversation about the measure. It’s also caused some to regard the initial panic over sequestration to be much ado about nothing — even as agencies did report that they experienced some pain from it in 2013.  Reference Article.