Pentagon to create 20,000 jobs to manage arms buys

[avaistheone1]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's Defense Department plans to create 20,000 new government jobs to help revise how it buys more than $100 billion of weapons each year, the Pentagon's No. 2 official told Congress.

The Pentagon also plans to tie contract fees more closely to performance and make deals spanning two years, or more, only when "real, substantial" savings result to taxpayers, Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn told the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee on Wednesday.

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The good news is this is supposed to be an effort to control costs. The bad news is that it will take an additional 20,000 people to do it.

My hope is that we wind up buying less than half of this destructive waste than we have in the past.
The cost for these weapons is literally killing our country. imo

[FrenchieCat]

1. I'd rather we pay for salaries controlling how we buy arms,

than not.

One Arms purchase Deal probably equals the salary of 20,000 for years.

[avaistheone1]

2. I would like to see what monetary benchmarks that have been set for performance.

Then we will have some tangible answers.