Service Eyes Multibillion-Dollar Savings With Personnel-Management Overhaul

By Sebastian Sprenger / October 24, 2011 at 5:24 AM
The Army hopes to realize $5.5 billion in annual savings by fiscal year 2016 through a far-reaching overhaul of how the service manages its more than two million military, civilian and contractor personnel, according to a previously unreported memo issued by Secretary John McHugh this summer. The goal is to create an "integrated human capital management system" that would cover all types of employees, including Reserve Component personnel, the June 20 directive states. The idea also is to equip such...

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