Hagel, Dempsey Shrink Pentagon Staff But Boost Homeland & Cyber

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Hagel, Dempsey Shrink Pentagon Staff But Boost Homeland & Cyber
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
on December 04, 2013 at 5:32 PM

PENTAGON: The world’s biggest office building is about to get a little less busy. Starting today, the Office of the Secretary of Defense is going to shrink by about 200 government personnel and a to-be-determined number of contractors by 2019, Sec. Chuck Hagel announced this afternoon.

Reducing OSD’s staff below 2,200 is just the start of a much broader push to cut all military headquarters’ budgets by 20 percent, and the $1 billion that today’s move will save over five years is a just tiny nip in the Pentagon budget, whatever Congress ultimately decides it should be. But more important than how many staffers go away is who goes away, who stays puts, and who moves. The big winners?

- The Pentagon’s Deputy Chief Management Officer. The DCMO will take over not only the previously independent Office of the Director of Administration & Management (known by the infelicitous acronym ODAM) but also new oversight duties ensuring DoD does not trespass on citizens’ privacy and civil liberties.

-The Pentagon’s Chief Information Officer (CIO), which will take over some of the DCMO’s information technology responsibilities and increase its cybersecurity capabilities.