Former Pentagon officials agree with congressional reformers that the Defense Department could find significant savings if it eliminated some "Fourth Estate" civilian management agencies, but the big money, they said, is in base realignments and closures and other politically unpopular actions. Peter Levine, former deputy chief management officer at DOD, told the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday he doesn't even think the Pentagon should continue to pursue its first-ever audit. "If I were the master of the universe, I...
