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Congress

Experts Advise Greater Cuts to Pentagon Overhead During SASC Hearing

Valerie Insinna

Tuesday, November 24th, 2015

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Experts Advise Greater Cuts to Pentagon Overhead During SASC Hearing

Congress has made cutting Pentagon bureaucracy a goal of its attempts to reform the department, but experts on Nov. 17 told the Senate Armed Services Committee that it should consider more aggressive action.Some of those suggestions—including another round of Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC), eliminating certain Defense Department positions and legislating an end strength on overhead personnel—are unlikely to be well received by all in the Pentagon and Capitol Hill, but are ultimately necessary to spur a change in the…

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