Defense Management Reform : How to Make the Pentagon Work Better and Cost Less / Peter Levine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levine, Peter, Author.

Contributor:

Levin, Carl, Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Department of Defense--Management.

United States.

Waste in government spending--United States.

Waste in government spending.

Department of Defense.

defense business systems.

defense management.

management efficiencies.

management reform.

national security.

organizational streamlining.

public administration.

United States--Military policy--Decision making.

Local Subjects:

Department of Defense.

defense business systems.

defense management.

management efficiencies.

management reform.

national security.

organizational streamlining.

public administration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (351 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Pentagon spending has been the target of decades of criticism and reform efforts. Billions of dollars are spent on weapons programs that are later abandoned. State-of-the-art data centers are underutilized and overstaffed. New business systems are built at great expense but fail to meet the needs of their users. Every Secretary of Defense for the last five Administrations has made it a priority to address perceived bloat and inefficiency by making management reform a major priority. The congressional defense committees have been just as active, enacting hundreds of legislative provisions. Yet few of these initiatives produce significant results, and the Pentagon appears to go on, as wasteful as ever. In this book, Peter Levine addresses why, despite a long history of attempted reform, the Pentagon continues to struggle to reduce waste and inefficiency. The heart of Defense Management Reform is three case studies covering civilian personnel, acquisitions, and financial management. Narrated with the insight of an insider, the result is a clear understanding of what went wrong in the past and a set of concrete guidelines to plot a better future.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Problem of Defense Management

1. Civilian Personnel Reform at the Department of Defense

2. Lessons from the never-ending search for acquisition Reform

3. Auditing the Pentagon

Afterword

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9781503611856

150361185X

OCLC:

1142905277