Pentagon’s 46,000 Temporary Workers May Lose Their Jobs

[sofa king]

45. My impression was different.

I worked with and around DOD for awhile, but never for them. Beginning in the Clinton years, the Pentagon began a massive non-hiring program, using temps and contractors to take over a huge proportion of its administrative work.

Most of those 46000 temp employees are probably filling positions that the Pentagon could no longer afford to fill, but could not do without. DOD actually pays the temp companies much more per person than they would pay an actual employee in wages; the problem is that they don't want to offer benefits to those employees.

The next step will be to out-source those jobs, at three to ten times the price instead of two to three times the wages, with a fraction of the work output, a much higher rate of errors and do-overs, and completely unreliable security.

The parts of Defense that already do this are the parts that don't work at all.