Pentagon Getting 'Chief Management Officer' to Shake Up Bureaucracy



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The Senate Armed Services Committee approved by voice vote Tuesday, and sent to the floor for quick action, the nomination of John H. "Jay" Gibson II as the Pentagon's first "chief management officer [CMO]" with a mandate to shake up the bureaucracy."This goes to the fundamental restructuring of the department," Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan told defense reporters last month in anticipation of the confirmation of Gibson, a former assistant secretary of the Air Force and former chief executive of XCOR Aerospace. Read More