DOD Transformation: Challenges and Opportunities

This is a Comptroller General Presentation delivered to the Defense Acquisition University's PEO/SYSCOM at Ft. Belvoir, Virginia on November 8, 2006. Major topics of this presentation include: composition of federal spending, the surplus or deficit as a share of GDP, GAO's high-risk list 2006, active duty personnel pay and benefits, potential DOD transformations, and systemic defense acquisition challenges.