Defense Programs and Spending: Need for Reforms (Testimony, 04/27/95,
GAO/T-NSIAD-95-149).

The Defense Department (DOD) made significant steps toward downsizing
the defense structure and budget.  During the past decade, the number of
men and women in uniform has declined by 28 percent and the defense
budget had dipped from $391 billion to $252 billion in constant 1995
dollars.  However, DOD has not fully analyzed assumptions underlying its
new force structure and some assumptions are questionable; role and
functions of the military services have yet to be sorted out; and a
substantial mismatch between programs and funding continues.  DOD wastes
billions of dollars each year because of long-standing inefficiencies in
its day-to-day operations and because it has been slow to take advantage
of opportunities to reform systems and processes, make further
reductions in infrastructure, and cut costs.

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 REPORTNUM:  T-NSIAD-95-149
     TITLE:  Defense Programs and Spending: Need for Reforms
      DATE:  04/27/95
   SUBJECT:  Financial management
             Defense economic analysis
             Base closures
             Base realignments
             Reductions in force
             Defense budgets
             Military personnel
             Defense procurement
             Inventory control systems
             Defense cost control
IDENTIFIER:  Defense Business Operations Fund
             DOD Bottom-Up Review
             DOD Future Years Defense Program
             Seawolf Attack Submarine
             DOD Corporate Information Management Initiative
             CIM
             
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