Agency cuts and boosted spending: 10 biggest stories from DoD in 2018
Take a look back at this year's biggest stories from the Defense Department, from proposals to cut the Fourth Estate to attempts to streamline acquisition and t...
7. “DoD memo starts to cleave its acquisition office in half, reassigns workforce”
In an exclusive, Federal News Network reported that Defense acquisition civilian personnel would see no changes in their title, series or grade as the Defense Department begins to cleave the office of acquisition, technology and logistics in half on Feb. 1. A Jan. 31 memo signed by then-Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan outlined just how the Pentagon would split its acquisition office into an office of research and engineering and an office of acquisition and sustainment. Congress mandated the split in the 2017 defense authorization act.
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