IDA Ideas host Rhett Moeller spoke to IDA Senior Fellow Peter Levine about his role as director of the Defense Management Institute (DMI), a DOD organization launched at a kickoff symposium at IDA on January 31, 2023. Peter explains how DMI will bring together a broad range of experts from outside the DOD to inform what goes on inside DOD. He also describes the scope of the challenge, which covers how best to conduct day-to-day business operations from sustenance, housing, and health care to training, sustainment, and logistics through efficient management, governance, and organizational alignment of these businesses.
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