A Congressional panel has roughly three months to come up with a plan to cut the deficit. The Pentagon is likely to get hit with hundreds of billions of dollars in additional budget cuts. Each branch of the military knows the cuts are coming — so they are trying publicly, and privately, to minimize the damage to their bottom lines. Todd Harrison, of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments predicts: “publicly it’ll come out with the services will be making an affirmative case for why their service and the unique capabilities they provide will be needed in the future.”