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Pentagon Begins Year Of Restructure With Uncertain Funding

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2018

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Pentagon Begins Year Of Restructure With Uncertain Funding

The Pentagon, headquarters of the Department of Defense. DoD photo by Master Sgt. Ken Hammond, U.S. Air Force.

The Pentagon begins 2018 again operating under a stopgap funding measure that limits spending while officials begin a systematic restructuring of the department and anticipate further changes prescribed by a flurry of reports due in coming months. A new National Defense Strategy (NDS) focusing on streamlining the Pentagon bureaucracy and achieving greater efficiency is expected in early February. The NDS will lay out the administration’s prescribed role for the military within the larger National Security strategy rolled out in December.…

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