{"id":32803,"date":"2018-05-16T20:08:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T20:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/05\/16\/the-pentagons-cmo-has-a-plan-to-get-more-money-for-warfighters\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:04:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:04:41","slug":"the-pentagons-cmo-has-a-plan-to-get-more-money-for-warfighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/federal-oversight\/2018\/05\/16\/the-pentagons-cmo-has-a-plan-to-get-more-money-for-warfighters\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s the Pentagon\u2019s CMO plan to get a lot more money for war fighters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WASHINGTON \u2015 How much money is locked inside the five-sided box?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a question Pentagon leadership<\/a>, outside advocates<\/a> and members of Congress<\/a> have been hammering on for years. With about one-sixth of federal spending going to national security, the thinking goes, there must be dollars floating around inside the Pentagon somewhere which could be put to better use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John \u201cJay\u201d Gibson II, the first man<\/a> to sit in the role of chief management officer for the Department of Defense, agrees, and in a May 1 interview with Defense News, he laid out how he hopes to take that funding and reinvest it directly into the so-called pointy end of the spear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gibson has set himself the challenge of trying to reform nine key focus areas \u2013 information technology, human resources, community services, contracts, real property, testing and evaluation, medical services, logistics and supply, and financial management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a wide range of issues to tackle, and Gibson is upfront about the fact it\u2019s not something that can be handled from his office alone. Instead, he wants to empower individuals already in the system to identify potential improvements and begin working on them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLet\u2019s take people that are subject matter experts from the enterprise, have them lead the team and then populate the team with stakeholders,\u201d he said. \u201cLet them go out and say, \u2018I see these opportunities. I know this world. Let me pick projects that I think that we can see benefit from, still aligning to the common goal of creating efficiencies enterprise-wide.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t