Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff and the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force secretariats and staffs all headquarters that ballooned in sizeafter the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and have only recently begun to leveloff. Compounding the problem, contractors form a large chunk of these employees, but DOD does not have an accurate handle on how large,auditors found. Without a systematic determination of personnel requirements and periodic reassessment of them, DOD will not be well positioned to proactively identify efficiencies and limit personnel growth within these headquarters organizations, GAO concluded in a 90-page report...
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