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Pentagon

Defense Department Business, Modernization Restructure Set For Jan. 2 Launch

Thursday, December 21st, 2017

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Defense Department Business, Modernization Restructure Set For Jan. 2 Launch

Aerial of the Pentagon, the Department of Defense headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, near Washington DC, with I-395 freeway on the left, and the Air Force Memorial up middle.

Deputy Secretary of Defense Pat Shanahan is further restructuring the Defense Department by handing off day-to-day operations of the Pentagon to a chief management officer so he can focus on big-ticket acquisition programs and modernization.The Pentagon in February is expected to publish its National Defense Strategy (NDS), which will lay out the administration’s vision of how the military and Defense Department fit into the larger National Security Strategy released this week. Shanahan said the defining theme of the NDS will…

Congress

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Army

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