Mattis tasks deputy defense secretary with effort to establish cross-functional teams

By Jordana Mishory / February 21, 2017 at 3:11 PM
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is tasking the deputy defense secretary with leading a review to find areas where cross-functional teams can enhance mission effectiveness and efficiency. In a Feb. 17 memo , Mattis calls on Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work to lead the effort to find "a series of key areas for review with an explicit goal of identifying business services and tasks that no longer merit individual military department approaches." The memo, released Feb. 21, notes that "cross-enterprise consolidation...

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