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Allard also played key roles in two of the most
significant reform efforts in Pentagon history. As a congressional fellow
he helped draft the landmark 1986 Goldwater-Nichols Act, which enabled the
development of a cohesive fighting force through a system of command and
control that ensures that the President and the Secretary of Defense
receive the best possible military advice. The bill enables the advice to
be rapidly translated into effective strategy on the battle field by
alleviating the myriad levels of bureaucracy between the decision makers
and the field commanders.
Colonel Allard was the director of the study that
produced the sweeping procurement reforms of the 1994 Federal Acquisition
Streamlining Act. FASA is an act that vastly reduces the paper work and
bureaucratic web that had previously defined military expenditures and
operations, in addition to providing incentives for defense contracts to
be awarded to small businesses and minority owned businesses.
A noted author and lecturer, Allard’s many publications
include two books, Somalia Operations: Lessons Learned, and Command, Control and the Common Defense, which won the 1991 National
Security Book Award. Colonel Allard holds a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School
of Law and Diplomacy, an M.P.A. from Harvard University, and he is an
adjunct professor in the National Security Studies Program, Georgetown
University.
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