Militec Inc's Plan To Rescue DoD and Balance the Budget

The MILITEC PLAN is (1) the enforcement of existing acquisition laws and (2) holding system bureaucrats accountable in a transparent environment.

           HOW TO BALANCE THE FEDERAL BUDGET WITHOUT CUTTING PROGRAMS:

The federal budget can be balanced by enforcing existing acquisition laws by holding career bureaucrats accountable through transparency. This new way of competitive thinking will allow troops/federal agents and the like to order their duty gear online, with a debit card and outside of existing acquisition channels. The debit card would have a credit limit and would be valid through USG approved and very competitive merchandizing websites.  This will eliminate the 5-10 year wait period for a new product, the middle man and the annual bleeding of billions made possible by a lack of transparency; maintaining the status quo.

 Congress must enforce existing acquisition laws for the availability of commercial-off-the-self-technology (COTS-PRODUCTS) that will be the locomotive to create millions of new jobs. The creation of new jobs is made possible by opening up previously closed markets/ programs/ facilities/ grounds for small business exploitation.  To ensure transparency, public forums will be required for bureaucrats to answer questions from the public each quarter. Workers being challenged about their public job (that is not secret) should be welcomed, since public workers are supposed to have Uncle Sam’s best interest at heart; not their own. Workers can no longer hide from responsibility that encourages FOIA’s and prepared remarks to speak on their behalf.  

The new way of doing business will allow for the use of “commercial- off- the- self- technology” (COTS-PRODUCTS) which will “BYPASS” the existing acquisition and Milspec compliance system. Allowing federal employees credit lines for the acquisition of their supplies through online competitive websites will create new jobs and will place DoD on a diet.  The net results are; troops will have the proper gear prior to deployment and the revolving door will be closed for business. This also means, the bleeding at DoD will stop, except for secret programs. 

                                         THE LAST TWO WARS TAUGHT US

The last ten years has taught us two things, (1) the number of federal workers has no bearing on troops having the proper gear prior to deployment, and (2) a top heavy workforce proves harmful to small business innovation by controlling competition by its swelled ranks.   The net result of controlling small business; nothing great has been issued to troops in decades, thanks to federal workers trying to reinvent the wheel. If the USG yielded to small business for its technology solutions, as it did during the first and second world wars, government would be shrunk, and the economy would be booming.

 DoD has way to many cooks in the kitchen (>850,000) that cause our troops (1.3 million) to get less than the best gear because the mindset (paralysis by analysis) of  one-shoe fitting all sizes as in did in World War 2 does not apply today. Further, troops are an all volunteer force so there are no more felons in the ranks that require federal worker oversight.  With this World War 2 mind-set and job survival as king, bureaucrats mistakenly believe that civilian management is needed over warfighters most basic items. The end result is the 5- 10 year wait period for new products that requires upgrades due to the passage of time.

              TO MANY DoD WORKERS LIMITS COMPETITION AND THE BEST PRODUCTS

DoD civilians and their revolving door apparatus are responsible for limiting competition (maintaining the status quo) which necessitate in-house workers to upgrade less than the best gear versus ordering a commercial mousetrap (COTS) that has been proven to work by other agencies, or manufactures warrantee.  USG weapons and accessories are mostly common, however, it’s the federal worker bee that create new rules (for the same mousetrap) citing their unique operational and environmental factors. Federal workers are needed (really?) to protect the military from its self by the management of Warfighting Products -- that limits competition. This allows for embolden workers to solve problems that happened on their watch thanks too, loop-holes in acquisition law. COTS PRODUCTS will BYPASS this system and save the USG a ton.

Transparent competition is healthy for our country and will re-tool our economy and provide troops with the best available gear and the USG with the best workers. In addition, the USG must allow public sector competition for job absorption by small business that uses a better mousetrap to save the USG money.  Competition, Competition and more Competition, is what made America Great because we were not dependent on other countries to pay our bills and supply us with items we invented.

        SMALL BUSINESS CAN RESCUE DoD AND CREATE MILLIONS OF JOBS

Over half of federal programs can be absorbed by small business to create advanced jobs and reduce government’s redundant payroll. Transparent competition will eliminate the revolving (fraternities’) door and SES’s/others will no longer be able to create millionaires, or have a million dollar job waiting.  The reason transparent competition will work:  following the money will land you in jail since there is no more confusion caused by loop-holes in acquisition laws.

Also, Uncle Sam should throw the criminals in jail instead of agreeing to large fines that contractors can easily swallow – with their profits. This is where party loyalty prevents justice from being served to large corporations that break the law.  When acquisitions are transparent, and troops/agents can order their gear online, party loyalty and favorite or preferred contractors will be a thing of the past.  

The annual wasting of billions and their joined-at-the-hip programs will disappear when transparent competition is allowed in these closed USG markets. The best federal workers will be hired by the small business with the best mousetrap. This will shrink government, without cutting programs in advance, since evaporation of the program would be over-time based on the remaining demand for the product or service.  

 The USG pays workers big money at bases and arsenals to development and manage gear that the last two wars have proven to be, less than the best quality. The USG has proven it cannot invent or distribute what is needed and when it’s needed. Since the MILITEC PLAN which this document is based -- is politically neutral -- congress can agree to it since it’s only the enforcement of existing acquisition laws and holding system bureaucrats accountable in a public environment.

                   TRAMSPARENCY ALLOWS WORKERS TO THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX

Managers starting @ GS12 will not challenge institutional programs/positions that are wrong, don’t work or are not needed because federal employees are taught to use all the money so the next year -- you should receive that amount and maybe more. This is sanctioning waste by paying folks to use all the money, or lose it.

 Two recent developments to illustrate how the government failed at managing technology that should have been privatized decades ago (1) We are relying on the Russians to get us to the space station and (2) The M’16’s still jams after 40 years. Competition will solve these institutional defects by allowing the best products to compete in a transparent environment that will result in the USG receiving the best mousetrap and in time. No more early bonus’s for late work and defects in workmanship.

 The private sector could have easily invented all of the needed military gear through its own revolving door business network Instead, the USG relies on bureaucrats to manage its billions, so the status quo remains. This communistic mindset only grows government, hurts small business by relying on USG workers to invent, manage and distribute basic items.

 The reason I believe the “MILITEC PLAN” will work is because I have been fighting abuse for 25 years by civilian military, federal agencies, congressional staffers, K Street and their entire revolving door apparatus.  When bureaucrats are held to account, common sense prevails and no more disappearing billions from sanctioned wasteful spending. 

The only way to solve the financial crisis is by the use of transparent competition and holding bureaucrats publically accountable. This common sense approach will create millions of new jobs; restore dignity in public service, without cutting social or defense programs.  

September 15, 2011 release date