Cross-Functional Teams in Defense Reform: Help or Hindrance?

According to the SASC, the Pentagon currently uses "sequential, hierarchical planning and decision-making processes oriented around functional bureaucratic structures that are excessively parochial, duplicative, and resistant to integrated operations and solutions. According to the SASC, fixing...

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Published in:Strategic forum 2016-08 (298), p.1
Main Author: Lamb, Christopher J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accountability
Collaboration
Committees
Decision making
Defense
Horizontal integration
Leadership
National security
Reforms
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Summary:According to the SASC, the Pentagon currently uses "sequential, hierarchical planning and decision-making processes oriented around functional bureaucratic structures that are excessively parochial, duplicative, and resistant to integrated operations and solutions. According to the SASC, fixing the "strategic integration" shortfall is leftover business from the original Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 reform agenda.
ISSN:1946-8725