Defense Management Reform - How to Make the Pentagon Work Better and Cost Less

"This book addresses why, despite decades of attempted reform, the Pentagon continues to struggle to reduce waste and inefficiency. Peter Levine narrates the history of attempted reforms through three case studies in civilian personnel, acquisition, and financial management in the Department of Defense. The result is a clear understanding of what went wrong in the past and a set of concrete guidelines to plot a better future."--

List of contents

1. Civilian Personnel Reform at the Department of Defense

2. Lessons from the Never-Ending Search for Acquisition Reform

3. Auditing the Pentagon

About the author

Peter Levine is a senior fellow at the Institute for Defense Analyses and a former Senate staffer. He has served as the Deputy Chief Management Officer of the Department of Defense-the senior Pentagon official responsible for defense management reform.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Levine
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781503610460
• ISBN: 978-1-5036-1046-0
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Öffentliche Verwaltung, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie, Politische Strukturen und Prozesse, Militär- und Verteidigungsstrategie