The first attempts to bring rational choice to the management of a defense budget coincided with the U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
But the first line of defense for these kinds of strategic assets is competent and prudent management of Department of Defense contracts, and regular consultation among U.S. agencies.
Is there any difference in the management of Defense Department information by the Obama administration versus that of George W. Bush?
He helped Mr. McNamara impose a reorganization of defense management practices intended to make the services work with one another.
In his major work, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776), Smith considered a perennial problem of defense management, namely, the increasing expense of war-fighting equipment.
Although regulators are bearing the brunt of Congressional criticism for the recent spate of compliance problems at banks, a number of speakers at the hearing noted that management is the first line of defense against money laundering and terrorist financing threats inside any financial institution.
This assembly was to have significant financial and revenue powers; but a number of important executive functions, such as management of the public service, defense, foreign affairs, and the administration of justice, were to be performed by three British officials nominated by the governor of Ceylon.
(a) Top management must ensure that employees and middle management are convinced of the importance of defense conversion to their organization, its effectiveness and feasibility.
If that occurs, "this will be the real truth teller," said Ray J. Decker, the director of the office of defense capabilities and management at the General Accounting Office, which in 2001 criticized the Defense Department's handling of its stockpile of older protective gear.
That means destroying the teachers' main line of defense against arbitrary management -- their union.
