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About two months after being confirmed in February as a secretary of the army, Dan Driscoll focused on removing waste within the army, promise to now have “strongly, function Pentagon and the army. “
Driscoll sat down with Fox News Jennifer Griffin’s national security correspondent to make some serious goals in terms of waste cut in the army.
Ever since he took over his new position, Driscoll has revealed that “the calcification of the bureaucracy of the pentagon” was one of the strangest reality he discovered.
“Everyone I knew, whether it was a politician or a soldier or civilian, had these stories about these crazy decisions and these, the consumption that was stupid,” Drismcoll said during an interview interview “Special Report” Friday.
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“What I thought was only one -time that they all had one or two stories. In my opinion, it turned out that the whole type of decision -making procedure in the last few administrations that moved in the last 30 years, led to a place where we have very irrational decisions that do not pay attention to soldiers and their needs,” Driscoll continued.
The Yale Law School of Law went into further details about a project of wasteful consumption that “really broke it”.
Driscoll has pointed out recent attempts to build an application that would provide up -to -date for the working hours for doors and nutritional facilities at a military basis. The Iraqi veteran claimed that although army The developers found an internal solution of $ 1400, the military acquisition team required a solution from the private sector, where the lowest quote was about $ 40 million.
“It was the one who really broke me and said we had to do something,” Griffin said.
Driscoll too Pointed to “Bloat” Within the Department of Activations of the Army as a second resolution area.
“We have 36,000 people who buy our things. And so a problem with this is not just a cost,” he explained. “It’s not just a savings of costs to get rid of some employees. It’s useful. It is the hope of hope that is what makes decisions worsen.”
“When you have 36,000 people who make decisions about what we buy, you get bad results almost every time,” he concluded.
Encouraged by waste cutting, north of North Carolina praised Trump’s administration for creating a “lane for changes” in the military. He also pointed to the Elon of Musk and the Ministry of the Government’s efficiency for making changes. “
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Fox News’ Jennifer Griffin contributed to this report.
