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Efficiency Drive
In his effort to squeeze savings from the military budget that can be reinvested in modernization, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has taken on such sacred cows as the low co-payments retirees make for healthcare and the bloated number of general officers. The result of this effort has been some
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Date:
3/8/2011
For the last several months, defense acquisition chief Ashton Carter has been using the example of consumer electronics to illustrate how inefficient the Pentagon's weapons suppliers are. While makers of smart phones and tablet computers routinely achieve double-digit gains in functionality and
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Date:
2/21/2011
On September 14, Pentagon acquisition chief Ashton Carter released guidance to his staff concerning execution of the defense department's efficiency drive. The efficiency drive is supposed to save many billions of dollars over the next five years by professionalizing weapons-purchasing practices
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Date:
9/27/2010


