Download or read book Defense Efficiencies written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 2010, the Secretary of Defense announced a department-wide initiative with the goal of achieving efficiencies and reducing excess overhead costs while reinvesting those savings in sustaining DOD's force structure and modernizing its weapons portfolio. The Secretary tasked the military departments and SOCOM to find estimated savings of about $100 billion over the period of fiscal years 2012 to 2016. For fiscal years 2013 and 2014, DOD identified additional efficiency initiatives. The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 mandated that GAO assess the extent to which DOD has tracked and realized savings proposed pursuant to the initiative to identify $100 billion in efficiencies. As the second report in response to this mandate, this report addresses 1) DOD's progress in adjusting its approach to tracking and reporting on the implementation of its efficiency initiatives since GAO's December 2012 report, and 2) the extent to which DOD is evaluating the impact of its initiatives.
Download or read book Defense Efficiency Initiatives written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Section 346(a) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 requires that DOD implement a plan to achieve no less than $10 billion in cost savings from headquarters, administrative, and support activities for fiscal years 2015 through 2019. Congress further mandated DOD to report on that plan with its budget submissions for fiscal years 2017 through 2019, and for GAO to examine each report. DOD has not submitted the report that was required with the department's fiscal year 2017 budget submission but did submit a letter to Congress in March 2016 with an interim update on its plan. GAO examined the extent to which DOD has identified the cost savings required through fiscal year 2019 using reliable cost savings estimates. GAO reviewed DOD's interim update and related documentation, including DOD budget and guidance documents. GAO also interviewed DOD officials about the status of the plan and related efficiency efforts. This is a public version of a sensitive report that is being issued concurrently. Information on budget data that DOD deemed sensitive has been redacted from this report.
Download or read book Defense Efficiencies written by U.s. Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " In May 2010, the Secretary of Defense announced a department-wide initiative with the goal of achieving efficiencies and reducing excess overhead costs while reinvesting those savings in sustaining DOD's force structure and modernizing its weapons portfolio. The Secretary tasked the military departments and SOCOM to find estimated savings of about $100 billion over the period of fiscal years 2012 to 2016. For fiscal years 2013 and 2014, DOD identified additional efficiency initiatives. The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 mandated that GAO assess the extent to which DOD has tracked and realized savings proposed pursuant to the initiative to identify $100 billion in efficiencies. As the second report in response to this mandate, this report addresses 1) DOD's progress in adjusting its approach to tracking and reporting on the implementation of its efficiency initiatives since GAO's December 2012 report, and 2) the extent to which DOD is evaluating the impact of its initiatives. GAO reviewed guidance, and analyzed and discussed information developed after December 2012 with DOD officials. "
Download or read book Defense Management written by John Pendleton and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The DoD has sought improved efficiencies and cost reductions that could be provided by the private sector, using both competitions with private co. and processes to create high performing org. (HPO). OMB¿s Circular A-76 establishes fed. policy for the competition of commercial activities. DoD has conducted more A-76 competitions than any other fed. agency. However, the A-76 process has drawn criticism from both the public and private sectors. In light of these concerns, a panel of public and private sector experts convened to identify ways in which the fed. gov¿t. could improve the A-76 process. This report examined the extent to which DoD has made progress in implementing and evaluating the HPO initiative.
Download or read book Defense Management Overarching Organizational Framework Could Improve DoD s Mgmt of Energy Reduction Efforts for Military Operations written by William M. Solis and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The DoD is the single largest U.S. energy consumer. About 3/4 of its total consumption consists of mobility energy -- the energy required for moving and sustaining its forces and weapons platforms for military operations. This testimony discusses DoD¿s efforts to manage and reduce its mobility energy demand, and addresses: (1) energy issues that are likely to affect DoD in the future; (2) key departmental and military service efforts to reduce demand for mobility energy; and (3) DoD¿s management approach to guide and oversee these efforts. Includes recommendations. Charts and tables.
Download or read book Preliminary Assessment of Efficiency Initiatives Announced by Secretary of Defense Gates on August 9 2010 written by Stephen Daggett and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On August 9, 2010, Secretary of Defense Gates announced a number of efficiency initiatives intended to contribute to a Defense Department effort to achieve about $100 billion of savings over the next five years. The Defense Department's intent is not to reduce the defense "top line" budget, but, rather, to apply any savings to finance currently planned programs. This memorandum is an order-of-magnitude analysis of amounts of money currently spent in each of the major areas Secretary Gates identified for savings.
Download or read book Army Efficiency Initiatives written by Dale B. Rivers and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1988, the Secretary of Defense directed the military services to incorporate Total Quality Management (TQM) principles throughout their organizations. Beginning in 1992, Total Army Quality (TAQ) was the Army's new management philosophy, responding to the DOD TQM mandate. This was a significant change of the Army's culture. In response to a 2010 mandate to cut The Department of Defense spending by $100 billion issued by The Secretary of Defense, The Department of the Army is still searching for ways to become more efficient. As a result, The Army Office of Business Transformation published a business transformation plan and developed the new Integrated Management System (IMS), both to be implemented in 2011. However, before making another significant change in business practices to meet the Army's current challenges, it must be determined if TQM is an effective management tool and more importantly if TAQ is an effective strategic management process to support an Army ready and able to accomplish its mission.
Download or read book Department of Defense Efficiencies Initiatives written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Chaos to Clarity written by Warren M. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Department of Defense written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Government Efficiency, Financial Management, and Intergovernmental Relations and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Chaos to Clarity How Current Cost Based Strategies Are Undermining the Department of Defense written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cost-driven outsourcing strategies are undermining the Department of Defense (DoD). This is the inescapable conclusion we have reached in the course of our research. The effort put into Office of Management and Budget (0MB) Circular A-76 (A-76) and related initiatives is great yet the savings are at best marginal. Moreover, there is evidence these initiatives are degrading mission performance. Why is this so? First, cost-based initiatives do not align with DoD business strategy. The Defense Department has historically followed a generic strategy of differentiation, not cost leadership. The Department of Defense's beliefs, values, and mission are atigned to support this generic strategy. A-76 and related initiatives, with their focus on cost, are not well suited for an organization such as DoD, which competes on quality, not cost. This misalignment of strategy and outsourcing policy has generated a great deal of concern within DoD. This is especially true of base and installation commanders who must implement A-76 and related measures. Installation commanders, more so than any other group we surveyed, place mission performance and personnel ahead of cost. This is at odds with current outsourcing policies that place cost ahead of performance and personnel.
Download or read book Defense inventory DOD could improve Total Asset Visibility initiative with Results Act framework report to congressional requesters written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defense Energy Management written by Edward R. Myers and published by . This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Defense (DoD) continues to make significant progress toward achieving the goals of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct 2005) and Executive Order (EO) 13423, Strengthening Federal Environmental, Energy, and Transportation Management. The DOD Energy Program initiatives include energy awareness efforts, energy manager training, audit programs, procurement of energy efficient products, and the use of sustainable design in new construction and major renovation. Other contributing factors include integrated energy planning, enhanced use of renewable energy, demonstration of innovative technologies, and the use of Energy Savings Performance Contracts (ESPC) and Utility Energy Service Contracts (UESC). DOD is responding to EPAct 2005 and EO 13423. Combined, these mandates established a new energy baseline (2003), increased the annual reduction requirement to 3 percent per year, increased the percentage of renewable energy required (7.5 percent by 2013), increased energy efficiency of new construction to 30 percent below the current standard, and required metering electricity consumption of all facilities. Through Fiscal Year (FY) 2007, the Department of Defense achieved a 10.1 percent decrease in goal facility energy consumption (as measured on a British Thermal Units (Btu) per gross square foot (GSF) basis [Btu/GSF]) as compared to the revised 2003 baseline. The Department of the Army determined that the square footage was over reported in 2003, compared to data contained in the real property database. Therefore, this book contains a significantly revised baseline, which raises the previously reported Btu/GSF from 113,510 to 116,134. At the end of FY 2007 the Department has 1.95 billion square feet of facilities and spent $3.4 billion on facility energy. DoD spent $9.5 billion on non-fleet vehicles and other equipment - such as auto gasoline, LPG-Propane, Aviation Gasoline, jet fuel and Navy-special fuel. DOD continues to make progress in installing renewable energy technologies and purchasing electricity generated from renewable sources (solar, wind, geothermal, and biomass) when life cycle cost-effective. The National Defence Authorization Act of 2007 codified a 2005 DOD goal to produce or procure renewable energy equivalent to 25 percent of facility electrical consumption. The total renewable energy that the Department produced or procured in FY 2007 amounted to 12,054 trillion Btu and represents 11.9 percent of the facility electrical consumption. For FY 2007, the Department of Energy revised the guidance for compliance with the renewable energy requirements of EPAct 2005 and EO 13423, allowing only renewable electricity. Under this revised guidance, DoD achieved 5.5 percent total and 3.3 percent new renewable energy, well exceeding the goals of 3 percent and 1.5 percent respectively.
Download or read book DoD Digital Modernization Strategy written by Department of Defense and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-12 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global threat landscape is constantly evolving and remaining competitive and modernizing our digital environment for great power competition is imperative for the Department of Defense. We must act now to secure our future.This Digital Modernization Strategy is the cornerstone for advancing our digital environment to afford the Joint Force a competitive advantage in the modern battlespace.Our approach is simple. We will increase technological capabilities across the Department and strengthen overall adoption of enterprise systems to expand the competitive space in the digital arena. We will achieve this through four strategic initiatives: innovation for advantage, optimization, resilient cybersecurity, and cultivation of talent.The Digital Modernization Strategy provides a roadmap to support implementation of the National Defense Strategy lines of effort through the lens of cloud, artificial intelligence, command, control and communications and cybersecurity.This approach will enable increased lethality for the Joint warfighter, empower new partnerships that will drive mission success, and implement new reforms enacted to improve capabilities across the information enterprise.The strategy also highlights two important elements that will create an enduring and outcome driven strategy. First, it articulates an enterprise view of the future where more common foundational technology is delivered across the DoD Components. Secondly, the strategy calls for a Management System that drives outcomes through a metric driven approach, tied to new DoD CIO authorities granted by Congress for both technology budgets and standards.As we modernize our digital environment across the Department, we must recognize now more than ever the importance of collaboration with our industry and academic partners. I expect the senior leaders of our Department, the Services, and the Joint Warfighting community to take the intent and guidance in this strategy and drive implementation to achieve results in support of our mission to Defend the Nation.
Download or read book From Chaos to Clarity How Current Cost Based Strategies Are Undermining the Department of Defense written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cost-driven outsourcing strategies are undermining the Department of Defense (DoD). This is the inescapable conclusion we have reached in the course of our research. The effort put into Office of Management and Budget (0MB) Circular A-76 (A-76) and related initiatives is great yet the savings are at best marginal. Moreover, there is evidence these initiatives are degrading mission performance. Why is this so? First, cost-based initiatives do not align with DoD business strategy. The Defense Department has historically followed a generic strategy of differentiation, not cost leadership. The Department of Defense's beliefs, values, and mission are atigned to support this generic strategy. A-76 and related initiatives, with their focus on cost, are not well suited for an organization such as DoD, which competes on quality, not cost. This misalignment of strategy and outsourcing policy has generated a great deal of concern within DoD. This is especially true of base and installation commanders who must implement A-76 and related measures. Installation commanders, more so than any other group we surveyed, place mission performance and personnel ahead of cost. This is at odds with current outsourcing policies that place cost ahead of performance and personnel.
Download or read book Defense Health Care written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report to the Congress on the Strategic Defense Initiative written by Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
