Air Force Wants Contractor to Write Our Nation Defense Strategy.

[OregonBlue]

The Air Force wants to outsource the synthesization, analysis and writing of its own overarching strategic direction. Inside the Air Force reports: "The Air Force is seeking a private contractor to help prepare its portion of the Defense Department’s Quadrennial Defense Review."

According to Title 10, Section 118 of the United States Code, the QDR is: “a comprehensive examination of the national defense strategy, force structure, force modernization plans, infrastructure, budget plan, and other elements of the defense program and policies of the United States with a view toward determining and expressing the defense strategy of the United States and establishing a defense program for the next 20 years."

This is clearly the kind of function that should be kept in the hands of government employees. Outsourcing this function will distance the Air Force from the people who are developing its own strategic direction. Frankly, the Air Force should not need to hire a contractor to do this, nor should it want to. Plus when you consider the weak conflict of interest regulations that contractors are subjected to relative to those faced by government employees, and the obvious temptations the opportunity provides (e.g. setting acquisition priorities, among other things), it all boils down to being a bad idea.

http://pogoblog.typepad.com/pogo/2008/03/air-force-wants.html

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1. Congress does that.

If a private contractor does that it takes away the power from the people.

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