Analysis / Reform

Reducing the Number of Senior Executive Service Positions by 25 Percent

Assessing Defense Reform Series

— Mark Cancian
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Summary

Cutting the number of SES is consistent with the widespread desire to cut overhead and the existing DoD direction to cut management headquarters. However, the current number of SES is not out of line with history. Further, DoD has proportionally many fewer SES than the domestic agencies. Download Report Here

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Mark Cancian, "Reducing the Number of Senior Executive Service Positions by 25 Percent," Center for Strategic and International Studies, July 9, 2016, last modified July 9, 2016, https://defense360.csis.org/assessing-defense-reform-cut-ses-positions-25/.

Mark Cancian is a senior adviser with the CSIS International Security Program. He joined CSIS in April 2015 from the Office of Management and Budget, where he spent more than seven years as chief of the Force Structure and Investment Division. Previously, he worked on force structure and acquisition issues in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and spent over three decades in the U.S. Marine Corps.

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