Lynn Advances Major Reforms To Boost Civilian Control Of The Military

摘要

Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn is proposing a set of sweeping management reforms aimed at significantly increasing civilian control of the military services by giving the defense secretary more leverage in determining which weapon system's to develop and buy -- prerogatives now largely the domain of the service chiefs.rnCentral to this previously unreported effort is a proposal to immediately launch a new "front-end assessment" process, a major analytic effort that would permit the defense secretary to issue explicit guidance as soon as May on specific programs he wants cut, modified or boosted in the Defense Department's fiscal year 2012 to 2017 spending plan.