The Senate’s version of the defensespending bill would require DoD to develop a plan for streamlining management headquarters by reducing the size of staffs, eliminating tiers of management, cutting functions that provide little or no added value, and consolidating overlapping and duplicative programs and offices.
Section 905 of the bill would require the plan to specifically address staffing and services provided by military personnel, civilian personnel, and contractor personnel to components including the Office of the Secretary of Defense, defense agencies, the Joint Staff, and others – setting as a savings objective $100 billion over a ten year period beginning with fiscal 2015.
The White House, however, said it rejected “particular budgetary or fiscal targets, which would preclude the department from appropriately sizing its workforce to meet its mission workload.”
