How Congress Can ”Fix” DOD

[longknife]

(Not the actual title of the piece) When all the words are over and done, the whole thing seems to come down to the following:

Finally, Congress should use the 2018 NDAA to achieve substantial savings across the Department of Defense. Like any other federal department, there is room to make cuts in unnecessary or wasteful expenditures.

Congress should authorize a “smart Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC)” program, which would focus on actually saving the military, and by extension, taxpayers, money. The DOD has found that it currently supports nearly 22 percent more infrastructure than it needs. The department must also trim excess bureaucracy, while Congress should continue efforts to audit the Pentagon to ensure it is making the best use of taxpayer resources, but tailor this audit to ensure it looks at the right things.

Another commonsense reform would be to allow public-private competition for service contracts. According to the Heritage report, “The RAND Corporation has estimated that opening support services for the military to private competition could result in savings of between 30 percent and 60 percent. This represents millions, possibly billions, of unrealized savings.”

And, I wonder just how many of us know what this is all about.

2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). This is only a blueprint. Not the law that actually gives DOD the money. That comes later in a Defense Approprations Bill.

Why the heck does Congress make it so damned complicated?

The full story is @ Here’s How Congress Can Restore the Military

 

[Dan Stubbs]

(Not the actual title of the piece) When all the words are over and done, the whole thing seems to come down to the following:

Finally, Congress should use the 2018 NDAA to achieve substantial savings across the Department of Defense. Like any other federal department, there is room to make cuts in unnecessary or wasteful expenditures.

Congress should authorize a “smart Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC)” program, which would focus on actually saving the military, and by extension, taxpayers, money. The DOD has found that it currently supports nearly 22 percent more infrastructure than it needs. The department must also trim excess bureaucracy, while Congress should continue efforts to audit the Pentagon to ensure it is making the best use of taxpayer resources, but tailor this audit to ensure it looks at the right things.

Another commonsense reform would be to allow public-private competition for service contracts. According to the Heritage report, “The RAND Corporation has estimated that opening support services for the military to private competition could result in savings of between 30 percent and 60 percent. This represents millions, possibly billions, of unrealized savings.”

And, I wonder just how many of us know what this is all about.

2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). This is only a blueprint. Not the law that actually gives DOD the money. That comes later in a Defense Approprations Bill.

Why the heck does Congress make it so damned complicated?

The full story is @ Here’s How Congress Can Restore the Military

I worked at Dover AFB and the outside contractor s had it made. The GI unloaded the AC and the Civis drove the forklifts and took the boxes back to the warehouse,, the GI s unloaded the forklifts and stacked the stuff. The outside contractors made out like bandits. The outside contractors were paid 277k per year for three operators weekends off. They had 12 guys who were authorized to operate fork lifts and the civilians were not really needed. I understand that KP duty is not done any more either. What a Life.