Identifying the appropriate balance between contractor and government staff is not a new challenge for the government. However, recent direction from Department of Defense (DoD) leadership has led to increased awareness of the importance of finding this balance. In his fiscal year (FY) 2010 budget message, Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates called for growing the civilian workforce by replacing contractors with DoD civilian personnel. In the 2010 Quadrennial Defense ...
U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) intelligence personnel collect, analyze, and disseminate intelligence to support USMC operational components and leaders. The geopolitical landscape within which this occurs has changed drastically since the 1994 Intelligence Plan (Van Riper Plan) sought to restructure USMC intelligence in response to perceived shortcomings exposed by the first Gulf War. Today, international security concerns abound, and issues such as the rise of lethal nonstate actors, nuclear proliferation by ...
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