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GAO Reports:

• GAO/NSAID-00-224, Defense Headquarters - "Status of Efforts to Reduce and Redefine Headquarters Staffs," September 2000 (pdf)
• GAO/NSAID-99-45, "Defense Headquarters, Status of Efforts to Reduce Headquarters Personnel," February 1999 (pdf)
• GAO/NSAID-98-25, "Defense Headquarters, Total Personnel and Costs are Significantly Higher Than Reported to Congress," October 1997 (pdf)

Reports to Congress:

• OSD Report to Congress, "Report on Major Department of Defense Headquarters Activities," June 8, 2001 (pdf; large file)
• OSD Report to Congress, "DoD Headquarters Staff Reductions: Strategy and Plan," (pdf) - pursuant to section 932 of the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 1999
• OSD Report, "Revision of Defense Headquarters Directive, 5100.73," (pdf) - a status report to Congress pursuant to section 911 (b)(2) of the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 1998 and section 932 of the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 1999
• OSD Report, "Review of Military Department Headquarters Staffs," (pdf) - pursuant to section 904 of the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 1997 and section 932 of the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 1999

Relevant Major DoD Reports: separate sites for each report synopsis or report

• Defense Manpower Requirements Report (DMRR) for FY 2001 - This report explains the Department of Defense (DoD) manpower requirements incorporated in the President's Budget for FY 2001. The Secretary of Defense is required to submit to the Congress the Defense Manpower Requirements Report (DMRR) in compliance with Section 115a of Title 10, United States Code (USC). http://dticaw.dtic.mil/prhome/docs/fy2001.pdf (offsite)
• Defense Reform 2000 http://www.defenselink.mil/dodreform/dri-cdrom/intro.htm (offsite)
• Defense Reform Update 1999 http://www.defenselink.mil/dodreform/1999update/ (offsite)
• Defense Reform Initiative (DRI), November 1997 http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/dodreform/index.html (offsite)
• Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), May 1997 http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/qdr/ (offsite)
• Defense Management Report (DMR) to the President, by Secretary Dick Cheney, July 1989 - http://www.c3i.osd.mil/bpr/bprcd/vol2/289a.pdf (offsite)
• Commission on Roles and Missions (CORM)

DoD Congressional Correspondence:

• Deputy Secretary of Defense letter to Vice President Cheney and the Chairmen and Ranking Members of the Senate and House Armed Services and Appropriations Committee, Oct 12 2001 regarding the Secretary's decision to exercise his authority under paragraph (g)(1)(B) of Title 10, Section 130a to waive the DoD major headquarters reduction for Fiscal Year 2001 from 10 percent to that already achieved. The Secretary has directed a long-term review of major headquarters activities throughout the Department to better determine where existing management structures and headquarters activities should be reconfigured and further staff reductions implemented to meet the Department's transformation objectives. (pdf)
• Deputy Secretary of Defense and Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff letter to the Chairman, Senate Armed Forces Committee, 28 September 2000, requesting repeal of the Congressional MHA reductions. (pdf)
• Under Secretary of Defense, Comptroller interim response to the Chairman, Committee on National Security, the Honorable Floyd D. Spence, US House of Representatives, March 25 1998 regarding section 911 of the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 1998 (pdf)
• Deputy Secretary of Defense interim response to the Chairman, Committee on National Security, the Honorable Floyd D. Spence, US House of Representatives, March 14 1997 regarding section 904 of the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 1997 (pdf)

Briefings:

• OSD(DA&M) Briefing to House Armed Services Committee on Revisions of DoD Directive 5100.73, "DoD Management Headquarters Activities," March 12, 1999 (pdf)
• OSD(DA&M) Briefing to the Senate Armed Services Committee, December 10, 1999, objecting to the 15 percent reduction in MHA and the OSD/WHS ceiling in the FY 2000 National Defense Authorization Act (pdf)