But Defense officials said they successfully delivered a transition plan by a congressionally mandat

By creating the Business Transformation Agency, Defense officials will centralize management of several departmentwide programs, money on space travel a year including the Defense money on space travel a year Travel System, the Pentagon's e-mail system, the Acquisition Spend Analysis Service and the Defense Acquisition Management money on space travel a year Information Retrieval program.
Program resources and personnel will be transferred to the new agency by the end of November, according to an Oct. 7 memorandum from acting money on space travel a year Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England to military service chiefs, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Defense undersecretaries and other Pentagon officials.
Until a permanent chief is named, Deputy Undersecretary for Business Transformation Paul Brinkley and Deputy Undersecretary for Financial Management Thomas money on space travel a year Modly will direct the agency. A two-star general or an equivalent member of the Senior Executive Service with the title of Defense business systems acquisition executive will oversee purchases for the programs transferred to the agency.
Previously, the Defense money on space travel a year Department resisted the creation of a senior management money on space travel a year position that would focus on departmentwide business modernization, though the Office of Management and Budget, the Government Accountability Office and several senators supported such a move. Pentagon officials feared the position would create an unnecessary management layer.
But Brinkley, in an interview with Reuters Friday, said this is not the creation of a "new bureaucracy." He said recent security threats require a more "nimble, agile and responsive" military and that the consolidation would improve business methods. The Pentagon plans to spend about $4.2 billion on business transformation in fiscal 2006, according to Brinkley.
The agency will help the Defense secretary's principal money on space travel a year staff assistants improve business methods, the department said in a release. The military services have had varying levels of difficulty working together, according money on space travel a year to reports.
GAO stung the Pentagon with a July report ( GAO-05-702 ) citing persistent weaknesses in its management processes. Defense money on space travel a year has struggled to establish an effective architecture that would guide business modernization, GAO said.
But Defense officials said they successfully delivered a transition plan by a congressionally mandated Sept. 30 deadline. According to the department, the establishment of the new agency money on space travel a year was a key part of the plan.
Even projects intended money on space travel a year to create efficiencies in business processes, including the department's $474 million electronic travel system, have come under attack. The travel system recently survived Senate attempts to nix it.