Details emerge on DOD's internal reform proposals as lawmakers ready bills

By Tony Bertuca / April 12, 2016 at 12:46 PM
Specific recommendations for reforming the Defense Department's organizational structure have emerged from an internal Pentagon working group, detailing some of the broad proposals Defense Secretary Ash Carter unveiled last week , though how DOD would implement many of the actions remains unclear as Congress prepares to offer its own path forward. The working group, chaired by DOD's Deputy Chief Management Officer Peter Levine, was established in November 2015 to assess potential changes to the 1986 Goldwater-Nichols Act responsible for DOD's...

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