The Defense Department could replace 80,000 full-time military positions with civilian contractors to save the government between $3.1 billion and $5.7 billion on an annual basis, according to a new report from the Congressional Budget Office. The personnel in question perform "commercial" or "support" duties such as accounting services, according to the CBO report, which estimates that "those functions require skills that could be obtained from the private sector so that, in principle those same positions could be filled by...
