How Obama Has Our Army In A Death Spiral
Heidi Shyu is the Army’s assistant secretary of acquisitions, logistics and technology and tells us that the Army is past the point where budget cuts have severely compromised Army readiness to defend our nation.
Over the past few years, Research and Development and Acquisition accounts have declined twice what the Army’s top budget is.
The Army now has the smallest budget of all of our armed forces. Shyu states that Army’s manufacturing facilities are actually in a “death spiral.”
“That is very disconcerting for our future,” she said on Oct 15.
Overall budget reductions, last year’s government shutdown, and furloughs of the civilian workforce, have all taken their tolls, she said.
Budget cuts do not equate to less work. They equate to more work as programs are strung out, Shyu said.
That means more contracts have to be issued. Meanwhile, the vital contracting workforce is being “slashed and burned,” she said. One-third the budget does not mean the Army needs one-third the number of personnel to carry out the acquisition duties, she added.
With the possible return of sequestration in 2016, the Army might be writing two budgets.
“It creates an enormous amount of additional work and churn on all the folks that we have in the acquisition workforce,” she said.
The furloughs had an “incredible impact on the civilian workforce’s morale,” she said. The attrition rate is increasing. “We are starting to lose people we don’t want to lose.” As acquisition programs are stretched out, it causes more inefficiencies, Shyu noted. Purchasing items in smaller quantities equates to higher costs as opposed to buying in bulk. “It’s not better buying power. It’s much worse,” she said, referring to the Defense Department’s Better Buying Power 3.0 initiative. The Army acquisition enterprise is being asked to deliver systems the Army needs but can’t currently do so in a timely manner, she said. Because workloads are going down substantially in the organic industrial base — manufacturing carried out by government-owned plants — the rates the Army must pay are going up, she said. That results in fewer items that can be purchased. “This is a death spiral that we’re in,” Shyu added.
Source: businessinsider.com
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This is the precursor to the UN controlling our military and government. Next year maybe instead of ringingin the new year, we can ring in the NWO
THE LIER IN CHIEF..
Just a question…mmm his polices and actions have put our military, not only in danger, but has direct ties to getting our people killed. Now I ask why is he still breathing? I’m not advocating violence towards this president or anyone else. But, why are We The People keeping him in office. Why is he allowed to have no stop measure. When will the people elected do their job in protecting Us, our children, our children’s children. What or who gives one ONE man say over our military. Over our constitution. ???????? Over each of us as a country? Last I looked we Are The USA. Not him. That man ( I use the term “man” loosely) that man has no say over me and my beliefs. Nor, does “he” speak for me. I would have thought God would have struck him with lightning by now. Maybe we all need to pray more.
Obama has done everything he has set out to do as president, he is destroying our country from the inside. and congress and the senate has let him so really who is to blame, we the people for watching and hoping that things will change, and boy have they, racism is at an all time high, our military is at an all time low, he and his staff have managed to divide our beautiful country into haves and have nots. our government has turned on us and it is time we take it back and put Trump in office , he is not a career politician and will do great things to get our country back among the top countries again. it will take time but he can get us pointed in the right direction.
I’m having a very real problem trying to understand how and why he is geting away with any of this. Is there no one else in our government who can see this and put a stop to it. And how can even Obama be doing this when everyone else in our gov knows that Obama isn’t allowed to do any of these things because none of this could be approved without congress. I really need someone to explain this to me. Where is congress and why aren’t they putin a stop to any of this. !
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What a load of horseshit!! The US military budget is more than a third of the military budget for the entire world, their budget is bigger than the next 7 countries combined and with the exception of Russia and China they’re all allies. The US have more carriers than the rest of the world combined, not only that the US carriers are far bigger than everyone else’s. The US also has far more fighter jets than anyone they will go up against. A two prong war is never ideal but the US has the capability to dominate in a two theatre war like WW2 and still be able to deal with a small scrap elsewhere as well.