{"id":29522,"date":"2020-02-06T00:00:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T00:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2020\/02\/06\/heres-how-much-money-the-pentagon-found-through-internal-savings-and-where-its-going\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:20:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:20:35","slug":"heres-how-much-money-the-pentagon-found-through-internal-savings-and-where-its-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/artificial-intelligence\/2020\/02\/06\/heres-how-much-money-the-pentagon-found-through-internal-savings-and-where-its-going\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s how much money the Pentagon found through internal savings \u2014 and where it\u2019s going"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-smg-jwplayer-video\"><atype-video-jwplayer nostick=\"true\" playlisturl=\"https:\/\/cdn.jwplayer.com\/v2\/playlists\/fCzRqMW8?tags=1c2e1654-b90a-49a3-a860-c61277714162\" poster=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/video-poster-1c2e1654-b90a-49a3-a860-c61277714162.png\" aspectratio=\"16 \/ 9\" mute autostart=\"false\"><\/atype-video-jwplayer><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Acting Pentagon Chief Management Office Lisa Hershman shares details on reforms being worked out at the department.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The Department of Defense has identified $5.7 billion in funding that will be reallocated from current offices towards new priorities such as hypersonic weapons and artificial intelligence, department officials revealed Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The money, colloquially referred to as \u201csavings\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/smr\/reagan-defense-forum\/2019\/12\/07\/esper-points-to-5-billion-in-night-court-cuts\/\" target=_blank>found through efficiencies<\/a>, is part of an internal review process of the department\u2019s so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2019\/07\/22\/this-is-who-wants-to-reform-the-fourth-estate-now\/\" target=_blank>fourth-estate offices<\/a>, which include all the defense agencies not associated with either a service or a combatant command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of that reallocation, expect a \u201csignificant\u201d change in the Missile Defense Agency\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2020\/02\/05\/mda-taps-industry-to-build-interceptor-to-defend-against-hypersonic-threats\/\" target=_blank>R&amp;D investments<\/a> and changes to an agency monitoring nuclear programs around the world, officials told reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The review process was launched by Secretary of Defense Mark Esper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/2019\/08\/30\/espers-pledge-to-trim-pointless-programs-will-test-his-political-clout\/\" target=_blank>after he took office last summer<\/a> as part of several attempts to focus the department\u2019s energy and dollars on the National Defense Strategy. This effort is largely independent of the review looking at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2020\/01\/24\/good-news-or-bad-pentagon-review-of-southcom-kicks-off\/\" target=_blank>force posture in the combatant commands<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fourth estate agencies account for roughly $99 billion in funds in the fiscal year 2021 budget, meaning the $5.7 billion in savings represent about 5.8 percent of the overall budget for those offices. Another $2.1 billion was transferred out of the fourth estate and into the services. However, no personnel will be involuntarily terminated from their jobs; any personnel reductions are planned to come from expected retirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The funds will be redirected to the following areas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><b>Nuclear modernization<\/b><\/li><li><b>Space priorities<\/b>, including the establishment of the U.S. Space Force<\/li><li><b>Missile defense<\/b>, with funds going towards a \u201cmulti-layered approach to homeland missile defense\u201d and the development of the Next Generation Interceptor<\/li><li><b>Hypersonic weapons<\/b>, with the review providing for a \u201cmajor increase in this investment\u201d in both FY21 and the following years<\/li><li><b>Artificial intelligence<\/b>, with review funds \u201csignificantly\u201d accelerating investment in AI for \u201cmaneuver, intelligent business automation and logistics, war fighter health analysis and intelligence data processing&#8221;<\/li><li><b>5G communications technologies<\/b>, with money going towards providing test facilities for 5G prototyping<\/li><li><b>Response force readiness<\/b>, part of Esper\u2019s plan to have forces that can rapidly respond to issues around the globe with a flexible posture<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A trio of senior defense officials, speaking on background ahead of Monday\u2019s budget release, briefed reporters on the findings. The officials avoided sharing specific details of where the money was coming from, or how much of the savings are being rolled into specific areas of interest, due to sensitivities with the budget <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/budget\/2020\/01\/06\/trump-budget-coming-feb-10\/\" target=\"_blank\">rollout next week<\/a>. They also declined to say how these savings might reflect over the Future Years Defense Program, a five-year projection included in the department\u2019s budget request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Missile defense changes<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The officials said that there were over 130 decisions made that combined for the total; some saved a hundred thousand dollars, and others saved millions. And the officials gave four large-scale examples of the kind of work that has led to the $5.7 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first is right-sizing 50 medical treatment facilities by studying the workloads and shrinking or growing the capacity at those locations based on what work is actually needed. Another comes from transferring all remaining storage, supply and distribution missions to the Defense Logistics Agency, something that was a left-over requirement from the 2005 BRAC effort which should lead to savings via economies of scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1335\" height=\"600\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GOOD_IMG_4768.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-83226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GOOD_IMG_4768.jpg.jpg 1335w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GOOD_IMG_4768.jpg.jpg?resize=300,135 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GOOD_IMG_4768.jpg.jpg?resize=768,345 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GOOD_IMG_4768.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,460 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1335px) 100vw, 1335px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A chart showing the five categories of fourth-estate offices, how much their budget is expected to be, and how much in savings have been found as part of the defense wide review. (DoD)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A third example comes from reducing the number of operations run through the Defense Threat Reduction Agency\u2019s Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program, which was stood up to track and monitor weapons of mass destruction. While CTR will continue to monitor potential threats like China, Russia, Iran and North Korea, it was also running a number of programs tracking the work on chemical or nuclear programs from allied nations, one official said \u2014 requiring dollars and assets that could be better put to use studying and countering potential threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat we found when we dug into it [is] it had expanded,\u201d the official said. \u201cThis has really turned into partnership building, capacity building far beyond the CTR mission. So then we had to ask the question in those areas, is that more impotent than hypersonics? In a lot of those cases we said no, hypersonics is more important than that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A fourth example, perhaps the most eye-catching, comes from the Missile Defense Agency, with the official saying a line-by-line review of MDA led to a decision to \u201cdivest significant legacy capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The review gave MDA an \u201copportunity to go through and look at some of the investments they are making that are really targeted at things that had either lessened in importance or were declining, and really realign funding to the new threats,\u201d the official said, hinting that a major focus is in changing where MDA dollars are going to R&amp;D as opposed to buying equipment needed now, including on technologies focused on discrimination of threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe could really start to say, what about bringing together some of the things we\u2019ve been doing at the regional level into a new underlay,\u201d the official added. \u201cAnd we said, the ability to shoot down actual missiles and putting more capability on the ground to shoot down missiles was a higher priority than some of the advanced R&amp;D work which was really taking us from an already good capability to a really exquisite capability.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Next steps<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Esper has already tasked officials to continue the review in FY22, with a plan of finding more savings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Part of the plan for finding more savings comes from Esper empowering Lisa Hershman, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2019\/12\/24\/congress-weighs-closing-up-no-3-office-at-the-pentagon\/\" target=\"_blank\">department\u2019s chief management officer<\/a>, to take a more active role in shaping the budgets of the fourth estate agencies into something that looks more similar to how the services operate.<\/p>\n\n\n<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link smg-interstitial-link--fallback wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2020\/02\/05\/defense-innovation-experts-to-congress-put-money-where-pentagons-mouth-is\/?utm_source=twitter.com&#038;utm_campaign=Socialflow+DFN&#038;utm_medium=social\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__fallback-link\">Defense innovation experts to Congress: Put money where Pentagon\u2019s mouth is<\/a><\/aside>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When a service puts together its budget, it goes through an internal process, where decisions about tradeoffs between offices and programs are fought over before a service secretary makes a final decision and moves the budget up to the secretary of defense level. However, the fourth estate agencies do not currently go through such a process \u2014 they drop their budgets at the same time as the services do, without that broad overview of a service secretary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Going forward, Esper has ordered Hershman to act as, essentially, a service secretary for the fourth estate offices, overseeing their budget development process before presenting a unified budget alongside the services. Doing so should provide better oversight on the process and ensure savings going forward, the officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe can make the defense wide account balanced, so we\u2019re not getting a bill from MDA and passing it to the services or taking a bill from MDA and saying [others] have to pony up,\u201d the first official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, to find more savings down the road, actual reductions may have to happen. Asked if personnel reductions could come during the FY22 review, all three officials used some version of this phrase: \u201cAll options are on the table.\u201d Similarly, a second official said that while no agencies were limited to this round, that could not be ruled out in FY22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And asked whether there is another $5.7 billion to be found in the remaining parts of the fourth estate, the first official carefully said \u201cI think the secretary thinks it\u2019s repeatable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Missile Defense Agency is one office whose priorities will be 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