Fate of Key Bush Administration DOD Reform Rests with Next Administration

By Jason Sherman / August 13, 2008 at 5:00 AM
It could take as many as six years for the Defense Department to fully adopt an institutional and governance reform effort that is central to the Bush administration's eight-year effort to improve management of the massive U.S. military bureaucracy, giving the next presidential administration a decisive role in shaping the current leadership's legacy. Ryan Henry, principal deputy under secretary of defense for policy, said in an interview that three full cycles of constructing the six-year defense program -- which occurs...

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