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Business Initiative Council (BIC) promotes DoD transformation goals. (American Forces Press...

By Gilmore, Gerry J.
Publication: Program Manager
Date: Tuesday, January 1 2002

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14, 2001--Using BIC, senior Defense leaders want to "rewrite" organizational business practices using private sector-inspired ideas and methods in transforming DoD into a more efficient organization for the 2 1st century.

Its purpose is "to recommend good business practices and find and implement cost savings that ... could offset the funding requirements for personnel programs, infrastructure, revitalization, re-capitalization, equipment modernization, and anything having to do with transformation," Navy Vice Adm. Joe Dyer explained to Pentagon report

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