Chief Management Officer of the Department of Defense
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Formed | 1 February 2018 |
Dissolved | 1 January 2021 |
Parent department | U.S. Department of Defense Office of the Secretary of Defense |
The chief management officer (CMO) of the
Organization
The CMO's office contained six "reform leaders" in the areas of logistics and supply chains, real property, community services, human resources, and health care, and a Program Executive Officer for IT Business Systems. The office also oversaw Washington Headquarters Services and the Pentagon Force Protection Agency and contained an Oversight and Compliance Directorate and a Headquarters Support Directorate.[4]
History
In 2005, the U.S. Government Accountability Office recommended that DoD create a CMO position to avoid fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement in its reform program. However, DoD declined to create an independent CMO position, and instead assigned CMO responsibilities to the Deputy Secretary of Defense in September 2007. The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 codified this into law, and created a Deputy CMO subordinate to the Deputy Secretary.[5] In 2011, the functions of the Business Transformation Agency were transferred to the Deputy CMO when that agency was disestablished.[5][6]
Creation of the CMO position was mandated by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017, and became effective on 1 February 2018. The Deputy CMO position was replaced with the new CMO position.[4] While the Deputy CMO was an internal advisor to the Deputy Secretary, the CMO is more powerful. The CMO was third-in-command of DoD, thus outranking the Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, and had authority to order the three officeholders to implement reforms.[7]
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018, which was signed into law on 12 December 2017, assigned CMO responsibility for “providing the availability of common, usable, departmentwide data sets and transparency of enterprise data.”[8]
Section 921 of the
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 (Pub. L. 116-92) required the Secretary of Defense (SecDef) to conduct an independent assessment of the CMO. The SecDef selected the Defense Business Board (DBB) on 3 February 2020, to conduct the independent assessment. The DBB submitted its report titled "The Chief Management Officer of the Department of Defense: An Assessment" to the SecDef on 1 June 2020. The report stated that since its establishment, the Office of the CMO "has failed to deliver the level of department-wide business transformation envisioned in the legislation, nor met the expectations of multiple SecDef, Deputy Secretary of Defense (DepSecDef), other senior officials, or the Congressional defense leadership."[13] Citing several more reasons, the DBB report concluded that "the OCMO has not delivered the needed transformation to the Department"[13] and that the position was "mostly ineffective."[14]
In June/July 2020, both the
List of Chief Management Officers of the Department of Defense
No. | Image | Name | Took office | Left office | Time in office | Secretaries of Defense serving under: | President serving under: |
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1 | John H. Gibson II[1][2][19] | 21 February 2018[20] | 30 November 2018[21][22] | 282 days | Jim Mattis | Donald Trump | |
2 | Lisa Hershman | 1 December 2018[23] | 19 December 2019 | 1 year, 18 days | Jim Mattis Patrick M. Shanahan (acting) Mark Esper (acting) Richard V. Spencer (acting) Mark Esper Christopher C. Miller (acting) | ||
19 December 2019 | 1 January 2021 | 1 year, 13 days |
References
- ^ a b c Garamone, Jim (22 February 2018). "DoD Now on Track to Rebuild, Restore Military, Spokesperson Says". U.S. Department of Defense. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
- ^ a b Gould, Joe (30 January 2018). "Pentagon chief management officer nominee clears committee". Defense News. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
- ^ "Department of Defense Implements Section 901 of the FY2021 National Defense Authorization Act". Retrieved 28 January 2021.
- ^ a b "Report to Congress: Restructuring the Department of Defense Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Organization and Chief Management Officer Organization" (PDF). 1 August 2017. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
- ^ a b Brook, Douglas (Summer 2015). "Chief Management Officer for the DoD: Does It Matter?". The Public Manager. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
- ^ "History". U.S. Department of Defense Chief Management Officer. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
- ^ Serbu, Jared (12 December 2016). "Congress creates new DoD Chief Management Officer, punts on role of CIO". Federal News Radio. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
- ^ Bur, Jesie (22 August 2018). "DoD's first data officer brings defense IT savvy". Federal Times. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
- ^ "Initial Plan for Reforming the Business Operations of the Department of Defense for Efficiency and Effectiveness" (PDF). Chief Management Officer of the DoD. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
- ^ "Section 921(b)(5)(B) of the FY 2019 NDAA Report: Notice and Justification to the Congressional Defense Committees with Description of the Efficiencies to be Achieved" (PDF). Chief Management Officer of the DoD. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
- ^ "Report to Congress - FY 2021 Defense Wide Review" (PDF). US Department of Defense. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
- ^ a b "DEFENSE REFORM - DOD Has Made Progress, but Needs to Further Refine and Formalize Its Reform Efforts" (PDF). Government Accountability Office. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
- ^ a b "The Chief Management Officer of the Department of Defense: An Assessment" (PDF). Defense Business Board. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
- ^ Gould, Joe (6 May 2020). "Pentagon's chief reform job is ineffective and needs to go, study says". Defense News. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
- ^ Mehta, Aaron (4 December 2020). "'They need to answer to this': Pentagon CMO pushes back as Congress moves to shutter office". Defense News. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
- ^ "Department of Defense Implements Section 901 of the FY2021 National Defense Authorization Act". Retrieved 28 January 2021.
- ^ Norquist, David. "Disestablishment of the Chief Management Officer of the DoD and Realignment of Functions and Responsibilities" (PDF). U.S. Department of Defense. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
- ^ Norquist, David. "Re-establishment of the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for InteHigence Oversight and the Director of Administration and Management" (PDF). U.S. Department of Defense. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
- ^ "John H. Gibson II". U.S. Department of Defense. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
- ^ "PN1515 — John H. Gibson II — Department of Defense". U.S. Congress. 15 February 2018. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
- ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
- ^ Bertuca, Tony (9 November 2018). "DOD chief management officer resigns". Inside Defense. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
- ^ "Defense Department Announces Acting Chief Management Officer". U.S. Department of Defense. 1 December 2018. Retrieved 3 December 2018.