Hicks sets new 'governance structure' to run Pentagon processes

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Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks has announced a new "governance structure" by which she will manage and oversee the Pentagon's ongoing reviews and implement guidance from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, according to a new memo.One of the key "formal mechanisms" Hicks intends to use is the Deputy's Management Action Group, which she will co-chair with Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. John Hyten, according to her March 11 memo.The DMAG "shall continue to be the department's principal governance body for management actions affecting the defense enterprise, including resource management and planning, programming, budgeting, and execution," the memo states.Military chiefs and secretaries and principal staff assistants from the Office of the Secretary of Defense "hold standing invitations to the DMAG" and may "delegate their invitations to their deputies when appropriate," according to the memo.Topics coming before the DMAG for review will include items from several senior DOD groups, though some matters will only be considered "by exception."The Program-Resource Management Group, led by the director of cost assessment and program evaluation and the DOD comptroller, "will be the primary channel for issues requiring DMAG review," the memo states.