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Secretary of Defense James Mattis on Friday began his crucial five-day tour of the Middle East and Pakistan.
This one was to the Vice President, the Secretary of State, the
Secretary of Defense, the Attorney General, the Director of the CIA, the National Security Adviser, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
CACI stands ready to meet the needs of the Office of the
Secretary of Defense as it continues its vital role in guiding defense policy and operations.
Recommendation: The
Secretary of Defense should direct the Under
Secretary of Defense (Comptroller/CFO) to require the Director of the DCAA, in concert with the revised mission statement, to develop a strategic plan with short-term and long-term outcome-related goals.
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He was about to take that on when he left office in '93," says Lawrence Korb, a former assistant
secretary of defense, now a defense analyst at the Brookings Institution.
In September, the presidents of 12 scientific and engineering societies, including SPIE, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the American Chemical Society, wrote to
Secretary of Defense Caspar W.
Problems with Total Procurement resulted in a July 1969 memorandum by then Deputy
Secretary of Defense David Packard advocating cost-plus contracts for development and fixed-price contracts for production of weapon systems.
Bush has never held membership in the TC but his chief mentor, Vice President Richard Cheney, is another Trilateralist, as are Deputy
Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and Trade Representative Robert Zoellick.
He offered that the
Secretary of Defense has been using security cooperation as one of a larger set of tools to fight the war on terrorism.
