Pub Date : 2019-01-31DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780190851798.003.0005
P. Light
Chapter 5 closes the book with a discussion of the “next gen” public service. Even as Congress and the president embrace the regular reblending using the “reset and trade” system proposed in chapter 4, they must assure that the government-industrial complex embraces a continued commitment to public service, a mission that matters to the nation’s future, and a workforce that brings new vitality to aging institutions. Federal employees are going to retire in record numbers over the next decade, but their departures will not create a destructive “retirement tsunami” if Congress and the president act now to recruit and train the next generation of public servants wherever they work in the government-industrial complex.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-31DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780190851798.003.0004
P. Light
Chapter 4 begins with a review of presidential proposals for reblending the government-industrial complex. The chapter starts with brief comparisons of presidential campaign promises and reform. This section argues that recent presidents have focused on “one-sided” reforms designed to show their commitment to smaller government. However, this opening discussion also argues that Obama was the first president since Eisenhower to understand the government-industrial complex and call for reform on both sides of the complex. Chapter 4 then introduces a sorting system for reblending the federal, contract, and contract workforces to guarantee that the right people are in the right positions at the best value with the highest performance and greatest accountability. Chapter 4 outlines a six-step iterative process for blending that starts with (1) resolving ambiguities, (2) taking social responsibility, (3) tracking the movement of functions between government and industry, (4) sorting functions, (5) resetting the cap, and (6) reinforcing the dividing line between government and industry.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-20DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190851798.003.0001
P. Light
Chapter 1 provides a broad history of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s 1961 farewell address and the author’s methodology for estimating the true size of the government-industrial complex workforce. The chapter begins with Eisenhower’s decision to deliver a nationally televised speech warning the nation of the grave threats created by the conjunction of an imperative, but immense military and armaments industry. The chapter explores the history of the speech and the president’s chosen words for characterizing the military-industrial complex. The chapter continues with a discussion of the method used for estimating the true size of the federal, contract, and grant workforces. The method converts federal spending into estimates of the full-time-equivalent contract and grant employment for use in side-by-side comparisons to the federal workforce. The chapter ends with a discussion of the data deficit surrounding the government-industrial complex and warns readers that all data have expiration dates, including the data used in the book.
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