Pentagon, Regional Staffs Growing Despite Orders to Trim Personnel -- Defense News
Data Show 15% Increase From 2010 to 2012.
WASHINGTON — The size of the Pentagon’s vast oversight organizations grew by more than 15 percent from 2010 to 2012, despite efforts to pare down the US Defense Department’s bureaucracy, a Defense News analysis has found.
On Aug. 9, 2010, then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the Pentagon needed to cut staff sizes. He made this task part of his efficiencies initiative — an effort to save hundreds of billions of dollars through better business practices. The military services’ incentive for accomplishing these tasks was that they would be able to get back some of that money to reinvest in other priorities.
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My Comment: I guess the above news explains this news story .... defense budget cuts will be occurring .... but not at the doom and gloom level for bureaucrats and big defense ticket items.
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