{"id":58719,"date":"2018-10-24T16:39:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T16:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/10\/24\/whats-going-on-with-the-pentagons-chief-management-officer\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T22:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:26:13","slug":"whats-going-on-with-the-pentagons-chief-management-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2018\/10\/24\/whats-going-on-with-the-pentagons-chief-management-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s going on with the Pentagon\u2019s chief management officer?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 At a meeting with reporters earlier this month, Deputy Secretary of Defense <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2018\/10\/04\/pentagon-breakdown-led-to-industry-payments-rule-being-published-shanahan-says\/\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Shanahan<\/a> was asked a question about filling the empty chief management officer spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shanahan quickly responded, \u201cWe haven\u2019t made any changes in the CMO position,\u201d before turning to aides and checking, \u201cHas there been an announcement, you all?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Getting a negative response, Shanahan reiterated that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/interviews\/2018\/05\/22\/how-the-dods-first-ever-chief-management-officer-plans-to-turn-cash-into-military-capabilities\/\" target=_blank>Jay Gibson<\/a>, the first man to be the Pentagon\u2019s full CMO, \u201cis still in that position.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That exchange sums up neatly the situation surrounding Gibson, a former Air Force official with industry experience who was named the Pentagon\u2019s No. 3 official earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In early September, the Wall Street Journal reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2018\/09\/06\/report-pentagon-cmo-to-be-replaced-after-less-than-9-months-on-job\/\" target=_blank>Gibson had been effectively fired<\/a> from the position for a lack of performance. Sources around the Pentagon confirmed that situation to Defense News, and indicated the official announcement would come just days later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Six weeks after the report, Gibson remains in office; yet no one inside the building denies that he is on the way out, with the widespread expectation around the building that it\u2019s just a matter of paperwork and potentially lining up a successor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Call it <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2013\/08\/130812-physics-schrodinger-erwin-google-doodle-cat-paradox-science\/\" target=_blank>Schrodinger\u2019s<\/a> CMO \u2014 Gibson has a job, but has also been fired. And until official word comes down, those working on issues pertinent to the CMO are stuck in what several individuals have described as an awkward situation, one where no one seems to know when the official end will come.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/pentagon\/2018\/05\/16\/the-pentagons-cmo-has-a-plan-to-get-more-money-for-warfighters\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4312381.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Here\u2019s the Pentagon\u2019s CMO plan to get a lot more money for war fighters<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">If there are dollar savings to be found inside the Pentagon, expect those to be reinvested directly to warfighting needs, the department&#039;s chief management office says.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gibson had been charged with finding efficiencies within the department, which Mattis hoped to directly funnel towards war-fighting needs. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2018\/05\/16\/the-pentagons-cmo-has-a-plan-to-get-more-money-for-warfighters\/\">May 1 interview with Defense News<\/a>, Gibson said he had targets of finding $6 billion in fiscal 2019, as part of a broader goal of saving $46 billion over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re probably going to pleasantly surprise people,\u201d he said then of expected savings, adding they would \u201csupport lethality. That brings those resources back to the services to use.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sources inside the Pentagon said there wasn\u2019t any one issue that led to Gibson being told he\u2019s out, but that he had built a reputation for simply not getting things done \u2014 a bad reputation to develop when one of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis\u2019 three stated priorities is reforming the Pentagon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sources said work that fell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/interviews\/2018\/05\/22\/how-the-dods-first-ever-chief-management-officer-plans-to-turn-cash-into-military-capabilities\/\">under the CMO\u2019s purview<\/a> was often picked up by the Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation organization\u2019s director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/it-networks\/cloud\/2018\/04\/23\/the-case-for-dods-single-award-cloud-contract\/\">Robert Daigle<\/a> or Chief Information Officer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/management\/leadership\/2018\/04\/05\/pentagon-names-dana-deasy-to-lead-defense-it\/\">Dana Deasy<\/a>, the latter of whom was recruited by Shanahan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both men are likely potential CMO replacements. 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