DEFENSE REFORM INITIATIVE: Organization, Status, and Challenges.

Abstract

For the past several years, the Department of Defense (DOD) has been working to reduce its infrastructure and support costs. The Defense Reform initiative (DRI), announced in November 1997, is DOD's latest effort to further this goal. DOD is looking to the DRI to make its current organization and business practices more agile and responsive. DOD also hopes that this initiative will provide a major source of savings that can be used to help fund DOD's planned $20 billion annual Increase in weapon systems modernization. The Chairman, Subcommittee on Military Readiness, Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, requested that GAO evaluate DOD's efforts to implement the DRI by assessing (1) actions taken through the DRI management structure to facilitate achieving the programs's objectives and (2) progress DOD has made in implementing individual reform initiatives.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1999
Accession Number
ADA363206

Entities

People

  • Barry W. Holman

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Base Closures
  • Business Administration
  • Congress
  • Control Systems
  • Cost Reductions
  • Electronic Commerce
  • Families (Human)
  • Financial Management
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Law
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Families
  • Military Personnel
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Test And Evaluation

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