Posts Tagged ‘efficiency initiative’

The planned reorganization of Air Force Materiel Command, part of an Air Force move to trim its civilian workforce and improve efficiency, will harm the service’s logistics function and should be postponed until congressional hearings can be held, said Mike O’Hara, a former director of civilian personnel at Robins AFB. “I fear that these necessary reductions are being used as a diversionary tactic to draw attention away from the pending disaster that will result from the reorganization being quietly slipped into place …

Installation support functions account for 1,700 of the civilian positions the Air Force is eliminating as part of its effort to pare funding for civilian personnel to fiscal 2010 levels, the second largest activity affected by the moves. The initiative to tailor installation support is intended to increase efficiencies by standardizing the level of service for specific functions across Air Force installations; consolidating base support activities where feasible …

Recommendations from an Army task force created to “critically examine installation management programs, services and organizational structures” are expected to be submitted to Army Secretary John McHugh early next year, an Army spokesman told 360 last week. The task force has been asked to craft a plan for short- and long-term reforms …

Hill AFB will lose an estimated 261 workers over the next year following last week’s announcement that the Air Force will cut 9,000 civilian positions, but Utah officials are focusing on the long-term uncertainty the move creates. “It doesn’t appear to us this is the end of it …

The Air Force will eliminate 9,000 civilian positions in management, staff and support areas as part of a reorganization intended to freeze the civilian workforce at fiscal 2010 levels, officials announced Wednesday. The service’s effort to streamline management and overhead is ongoing, with additional moves expected …

To cope with reduced funding in the coming fiscal year, the Air Force is offering civilian employees the opportunity to voluntary separate or take an early retirement. The decline in FY 2012 funding was prompted by the secretary of defense’s efficiency initiative that holds civilian manning at FY 2010 levels throughout DOD …

DOD’s effort to slash several hundred billion dollars from of its spending plans is ongoing and no decisions on cuts have been made to date, Secretary Leon Panetta said Tuesday. “I am committed to making these decisions based on the best advice that I receive from the service secretaries and from the service chiefs as well as the combatant commanders …

In an effort to make the Army a more “agile, cost-effective organization,” the service is creating a panel to identify and carry out improvements to its organizational and business structures. “We’re not just asking people to change the way they budget. We’re asking them to change the way they think …

The Army should realize substantial energy cost savings as a result of BRAC, said Richard Kidd, deputy assistant secretary of the Army for Energy and Sustainability. Unlike the Navy and Air Force, which consume much more liquid fuel, the Army is the largest consumer of facility energy, not only within the Defense Department, but within the entire federal government …

In separate ceremonies Thursday, Joint Forces Command transferred its Joint Warfare Analysis Center to U.S. Strategic Command and its Joint Enabling Capabilities Command to U.S. Transportation Command, the latest moves in the dismantlement of Joint Forces Command. All effected elements will remain at their current locations …