The American Federation of Government Employees has expressed doubt that a DoD efficiency initiative that includes a 30 percent cut to service contractors over three years and a freeze on its civilian workforce for three years would not hamper operations.
The initiative, announced this summer, includes a freeze at fiscal 2010 levels on the number of civilian senior executives, general and flag officer and PAS positions, as well as consolidations among IT infrastructure facilities.
"AFGE members in the defense agencies, who have been doing more and more with less and less for several years, are understandably concerned what a combination of real reductions in contractors and a freeze on the civilian workforce will mean for their ability to perform their missions," said Jacqueline Simon, the union’s public policy director.
