Editorial: DoD must cut overhead, personnel
Three years ago as Defense Department spending was poised for a downturn, then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates launched a broad efficiency drive to cut staffs and stretch dollars.
- Jun. 9, 2013
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Three years ago as Defense Department spending was poised for a downturn, then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates launched a broad efficiency drive to cut staffs and stretch dollars.
The debate over federal pay hinges on one commonly accepted premise: The pay of a federal employee and an employee of a commercial entity doing highly similar work should be highly similar.
More than two decades of effort and $100 million in costs have gone down the drain in trying to speed up processing full retirement pay for former federal employees.
The costs agencies ascribe to federal pensions, when they are comparing whether it is more efficient to perform commercial-like work in-house or to outsource it to a contractor, have been understated significantly for decades.
First, let me say these are my views only, not my employer's.
The federal drawdown of the twenty-teens is here.