Report: New Strategy Needed to Slash Management Overhead at DOD

By Sebastian Sprenger / August 4, 2008 at 5:00 AM
Pentagon leaders should craft a new "enterprise vision" focused on slashing costly management overhead and instead hone core military capabilities, a group of Defense Department advisers recommend in a new report provided to InsideDefense.com . According to the Defense Business Board study, the Pentagon spends approximately 42 percent of its budget on "infrastructure," which includes military installations, the Defense Health Program, "central logistics," and "central training." Among infrastructure expenditures, the accounts "departmental management" and "central personnel administration" grew by nine...

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