Defense Secretary Pete Hegses is destroying Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)'s internal Pentagon Think Tank
defendant Last month, “a terrible waste, fraud, abuse.”
Chief Sean Parnell, spokesman for the Pentagon
I said “As part of the division's continued commitment to strengthening the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Defense has directed the abolition of the Net Assessment Bureau (ONA) and the development of a plan to restructure it in alignment with the division's strategic priorities.”
“This decision ensures that our resources are focused on the most pressing national security challenges, while still maintaining accountability and efficiency,” Parnell added.
ONA officials will be reassigned to mission-critical roles within the Department of Defense, the spokesman said.
Grassley celebrated the movement,
Statement“We're happy to hear the news that after the Net Assessment Bureau has not strengthened its defense and raising taxpayer ramp banishment abuse for years, President Trump is abolishing this wasteful, ineffective office.”
“Praise the Lord,” continued Grassley. “This wise move will save American taxpayers over $20 million a year.”
Contracting many workouts to a Washington, DC-based think tank, ONA was founded in lieu of clothing during the Cold War, beyond traditional intelligence reports and short-term trend ratings. provide Long-term “Comparative assessment of trends, key competition, risks, opportunities and future prospects for US military capabilities against the Secretary of Defense.”
This institution appears to have been very active in recent decades.
Future-oriented It's sinking time and money to the work it was created, various pet projects, or former Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby Or it will be referenced “Studying the 'orthogonal' problem – you may not think it will obviously affect the department, but it may actually prove to be important for future security environments and future wars that DOD needs to consider.”
The Pentagon confirmed in 2014 that it spent $300,000 a year studying the body language of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Politics
It's attracting attention The study continued, despite the Pentagon acknowledging that such an analysis turned out to be useless regarding the Russo-Ukrainian War that began that year.
“ONA is not performing taxpayer duties and is engaged in financial waste.”
In a letter to Heggs on February 7th, Senator Grassley highlighted another meaningless study conducted by ONA in 2009.
Discussed The relationship between America's willingness to use military force and “permanence of Scotch Irish culture in America” - the author claimed that it was “enhanced by slaveholding” and “shaped by an endemic battle that placed high value on the fierce personal response to challenges and loyalty.”
Grassley suggested that the study speculates that Scotch-Irish culture in the United States and that Asperger's “has nothing to do with the core mission of Ona, that is, it creates a net assessment that measures military capabilities against foreign enemies.”
The senator also raised concerns about the obvious inappropriate classification of contracts and project data, as well as the contract with Stefan Halper, who helped the Obama FBI to win a FISA warrant by serving as the 2016 Trump campaign, serving as a confidential informant for Bureau's Hurricane Operation.
Inspector General Audit Bureau
Found In the case of intruders of the FBI's Trump campaign, ONA has raised various issues with ONA's contract management and monitoring process, saying “Professor Halper was unable to provide sufficient documentation of all work performed in accordance with applicable laws and regulations,” and “Professor Halper did not need to provide evidence to submit his proposals and workplace proposals and personnel cited to the target.”
“I continue to worry that ONA is not fulfilling its taxpayer mission and is engaged in financial waste,” writes Grassley.
To Grassley's delight, Hegses oversaw the Pentagon's top acquisition officer with a note
Get By breaching the defense, we ensure that “necessary measures will be taken” by the department's contracting authority to scrap “any ONA contract awarded against ONA and ONA related requirements.”
While the Secretary of Defense took over the agency, he showed he wanted a 30-day plan on how to rebuild the office to match the Pentagon's priorities.
This decision ranks so-called experts in DC think tank games that could be potential sources of income.
Rush Doshi, Director of the Council of Foreign Affairs 'China Strategy Initiative, Called The decision to rase reconstructs the ona “big mistakes”.
“This was a much lesser known, but very important, 50 years ago institution that we actually thought about in the long run. It allowed us to win the Cold War, grasp China's challenges early and understand the revolution in war,” Dosi continued. “When I was there [National Security Council]ONA has produced some of the best analyses everywhere in USG, and has had immense and even historical policy implications. Currently, no other institutions can do what it has done. Ending it is another unforced error. ”
Tom Shugart, a part-time senior fellow at the new DC-based American Security Center, also clenched the pearl. suggestion An ONA overhaul could undermine US national defense.
Kyle Balzer, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute; Called It's an “inadequate decision.”
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