Gates to DoD Staff: Cooperate With Efficiency Effort - Defense News: "U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates this week codified the 20 elements of his effort to cut 'excess and duplication' with the publication of a memo detailing his plans, distributed throughout the Pentagon Aug. 16.
The document, which does not list any new elements of Gates' war on excess, officially orders key Pentagon staff to assist in executing the 20 moves aimed at eliminating redundancy, which the secretary described in a widely publicized Aug. 9 speech."
