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Efficiency Initiative
There is no question that the Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, is a smart man. Nor is there a doubt that he means well. His efforts to drive excess costs out of the defense budget and to find ways of reining in the skyrocketing prices for new weapons systems is admirable. However, in many ways
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Date:
9/16/2010
Pentagon acquisition chief Ashton Carter today unveiled guidance that will help drive the Pentagon's $100 billion efficiency drive over the next half-decade. The guidance is distilled from insights provided by hundreds of professionals both inside and outside the defense department, and seems to
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Date:
9/14/2010
This week Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced a series of decisions intended to begin the process of reining in the explosion of overhead costs in the Department of Defense. Among other decisions, Gates said that he was taking the unprecedented step of actually eliminating one of ten unified
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Date:
8/11/2010
Yesterday, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates held a news conference to lay out his much anticipated plans to wring costs out of the Defense Department’s overhead activities as part of an effort to find $100 billion of savings to be applied to investments in future capabilities. He is freezing senior
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Date:
8/10/2010
Defense secretary Robert Gates issued a friendly but firm warning to the leaders of the defense industry in a private meeting last week: either get with the program on becoming more efficient, or live with the possibility of more draconian measures coming from outside the Pentagon. The Thursday
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Date:
8/2/2010


