The Senate Armed Services Committee seeks to save $1.7 billion in fiscal year 2016 by reorganizing the Pentagon's headquarters and administrative staffs, according to the committee's version of the FY-16 defense authorization bill. Congress required the Defense Department to submit a report detailing its plans to reduce administrative overhead by 20 percent in 2014, but the report never came. Now, Senate authorizers are taking steps to force the cuts. "This bill initiates a reorganization of the Department of Defense in...
