Congress' tinkering with defense CMO likely to make things worse
By Douglas A. Brook, opinion contributor — 07/13/20 04:30 PM EDT
Congress appears to be poised to make yet another attempt to improve management at the Department of Defense by tinkering with the office of the chief management officer (CMO) in the pending National Defense Authorization Act.
This is unlikely to make things better and will probably make things worse.
The House version of the bill simply gives the secretary of defense 30 days to transfer the authorities somewhere else in the department, as long as it’s not to anyone who has previously served as the chief management officer. The Senate version is more prescriptive. It would transfer most of the officer’s responsibilities to the deputy secretary and mandate a new performance improvement officer reporting to the deputy. Both approaches are wrong.
https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/507088-congress-tinkering-with-defense-cmo-likely-to-make-things-worse
