Today's civilian workforce is not really in a position to implement our national defense strategy. There's too much manual processing, too few with stem and emerging tech skills. The cost of personnel is rising faster than our total defense spending. The civilian workforce continues to grow as we can't meet our recruiting targets for the army, the Navy, the air force, the rest of the military. (02:01–02:07)
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Asserts that personnel costs are increasing at a rate higher than overall defense spending.
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