Gen. Donald Hoffman, Air Force Materiel Command boss, warned that the Defense Department, like the nation, is facing a great challenge in maintaining its fiscal health that threatens national security. “We’re on an unsustainable path,” he said in his address this week at the 2011 Defense Acquisition University Acquisition Insight Conference in Dayton, Ohio. He added, “Americans need to make individual and collective sacrifices to live within our means. DOD needs to play and Air Force acquisition needs to play.” Hoffman called on acquisition professionals to be good fiscal stewards. “If significant efficiencies aren’t identified and wholly committed to, resources for modernization, readiness, and facilities will not be available,” he said. He noted that many of these efficiencies “will have to be found in the fastest growing element of our spending . . . the cost of personnel.” He spoke Tuesday. (Wright-Patterson release)
Air Force Gen. Alexus G. Grynkewich assumed command of U.S. European Command on July 1, taking over the key assignment as the U.S. and its allies contend with a resurgent Russia and a grinding war in Ukraine.
