The Pentagon has buried an internal study that exposed $125 billion in administrative waste in its business operations amid fears Congress would use the findings as an excuse to slash the defense budget, according to interviews and confidential memos obtained by The Washington Post. By Craig Whitlock and Bob Woodward.
The report, issued in January 2015, identified “a clear path” for the Defense Department to save $125 billion over five years. The plan would not have required layoffs of civil servants or reductions in military personnel. Instead, it would have streamlined the bureaucracy through attrition and early retirements, curtailed high-priced contractors and made better use of information technology.
Although the report provided a clear path for fixing DOD’s problem it also demonstrated that:
1. Government Bureaucracies do not Fix Themselves.
2. Government Bureaucracies do not properly manage the peoples business.
3. The Report, like so many others, did nothing to reform the DOD since it was ignored.
In my Articles 84.and 82 I have recommended an internal watchdog organization, the OIG, with investigative powers and the means to implement management tools needed to manage Federal Government Departments bringing the Federal Government under control. My General Reform Model does one other important thing it provides for the permanent elimination of the Bureaucratic organization transforming the Federal Government into a Team Managed organization. The details of how to deal with massive reduced personnel requirements are left to the implementers and Congress. See Article 11. The Failure of Bureaucratic Government
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