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Better Business Practices Could Ease Army Tension Between Readiness And Modernization

Friday, July 8th, 2016

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Better Business Practices Could Ease Army Tension Between Readiness And Modernization

Army Undersecretary Patrick Murphy. Photo: Army.

Undersecretary of the Army Patrick Murphy is looking for efficiencies in the way the service does business to redirect wasted funding to near- and long-term readiness.“Every dollar saved through efficient business practices is a dollar we can spend ensuring our Army never faces a fair fight,” Murphy said Friday at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C.The Army is not a publicly traded business, but its leaders can learn from sound business management practices perfected in the private sector, Murphy…

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