"It's been a case of borrowing from Peter to pay Paul," NASA's Norm Augustine said. "And Peter's about to run out of money to borrow."
The service recruited 55,300 new soldiers in fiscal 2024, meeting its recruitment target, after it hoped to bring 60,000 recruits in 2022 and 65,000 in 2023.
Senators voted Tuesday to confirm Army Lt. Gen. Ronald Clark for a fourth star and as commander of U.S. Army Pacific.
"One of the problems is the Defense Department doesn't use the software and data that all first-class enterprises in the world use," Jeb Nadaner said.
Army officials are working to inculcate agile principles within their own organizations, but also need a new contract vehicle to buy software from industry.
"We urge the DoD to really focus significant investment on next generation semiconductor technologies," said Liesl Folks.
The new tool sifts through over 30 million applicant files, and uses 1,700 different variables to generate highly refined prospect lists.
Sources say the law enforcement activity included two criminal and one civil subpoena.