If you don't use up all of your budget for the year, it gets reduced for the next one. This is a major reason the defense spending in general doesn't go down. N

If you don't use up all of your budget for the year, it gets reduced for the next one. This is a major reason the defense spending in general doesn't go down. Nobody wants to have lesser budget, it impacts their promotions and mini political empires. Same is true in many large organizations, which is why mass layoffs and other forms of 'shock therapy' happen every once in a while, because the way the system is managed doesn't naturally lend itself to small incremental corrections.