On March 26, 2018, Secretary of Defense, James Mattis, wrote a memo addressing the 2018 National Defense Budget, and President Trump’s passing of the omnibus spending bill, advocating to all members of the Department of Defense to be “peerless stewards of taxpayers’ dollars.” Secretary Mattis went on to express the importance of utilizing every dollar strategically by writing, “it is now contingent on us to gain full value from every taxpayer dollar spent on defense. As such, every decision we make must focus on lethality and affordability.”