Re: PRESIDIO: FROM BRAC TO FUDS

[Polly Parks <pparks@igc.org>]

From: Polly Parks <pparks@igc.org>

Dear friends:

I think you are beginning to see the fruits of devolvement;
particularly in the budget build.

The concept of devolvement has been integrated into the BRAC.

Clearly institutional controls on the budget build process both at
the service branch and OSD (enviro and economic security) need to
be instituted.

In the spirit of FFERDC and DERTF I think it makes sense the
institutional control not be internal to DoD. This year is
probably a little late, but next year pushing Congress to set up
an independent oversight body both for the budget build and
relative risk are needed. I have been getting complaints from the
program managager level about the latter.

Since Sherry has her staff monitor the cpro conference, it would
be nice to get some response about this. Its all well and good to
highlight success stories but not at the expense of the integrity
of the program.

 It would nice to get some response from the service
branch program level about what all this means as well. Also if
we can expect the DERA and BRAC having to pay part of the cut for
the IRAQ excursion the past couple of days.

Polly