Military Outsourcing/ INSP a candidate?
by: ridelongride 10/10/01 04:40 pm
Msg: 307886 of 307912
Statement for the Record
by
General Richard D. Hearney, USMC (Retired)
President and Chief Executive Officer
Business Executives for National Security
for the
Technology and Procurement Policy Subcommittee
of the
House Committee on Government Reform
June 28, 2001
....Private Sector Outsourcing Candidates are a Place to Start
There are several sectors where the private sector holds a comparative advantage – either their employees have talents for which the government is unable to compete or they have developed technologies, processes, or expertise that the government cannot readily replicate. These are common problems throughout government and the Defense Science Board and others have adequately detailed the potential for savings in these areas. For comparison and by way of example, here are the areas where the Outsourcing Research Council says the private sector has chosen to spend its outsourcing dollars:
information technology deployment,
logistics (inventory and transportation),
document management,
component manufacturing (the "make/buy" decision),
financial management,
human resources,
and raw materials management (commodities).
Shine a Bright Light on Every Process
In developing and implementing its strategy, the Department should renew its efforts to reengineer and outsource using all the tools they have in hand. The Pentagon’s business processes are not world-class – they are not what our men and women in uniform deserve – and they will not stand up to the "bright light and wire-brush" scrutiny they should be given. Every process and every position needs to be reexamined – there is no justification for many of the positions in the Pentagon’s most commercial of entities being exempted from competition.
A strategic approach to outsourcing, done correctly, will enable the Department to look at all of its functions, not just those it classifies as commercial, and all of its positions, even those classified inherently governmental or otherwise exempted from competition. Far too many of the Department’s most commercial of activities of have been exempted from competition for what amount to specious reasons.
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