By Lauren C. Williams
Jan 20, 2021
The Defense Department has begun shifting the chief management officer position and duties that Congress repealed in the 2021 defense authorization bill to several entities across DOD, including the CIO.
Deputy Defense Secretary David Norquist pushed out in two memos dated Jan. 11 re-establishing two organizations to bear some CMO responsibilities, and realigning others across the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
One memo resurrected two positions: the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Oversight office, which will take on the CMO s Division of Intelligence Oversight function, funding and responsibilities, and the Director of Administration and Management, which will take over the CMO s Directorate for Oversight and Compliance and the Directorate for Administration and Organizational Policy. The latter will also take control of the Washington Headquarters Service and the Pentagon Force Protection Agency.