Beth McGrath on the Excellence in Government Podcast 7/16/2013
Channel: Government Executive
Date: 05/11/2013

Beth McGrath, the Department of Defense Deputy Chief Management Officer and the Department's Performance Improvement Officer, is interested in finding the right budget number for certain systems in the Defense Department. What is that right number?

"The right number is however many we need to achieve the business objectives that we're aiming at," McGrath said.

McGrath joined host Mark Micheli to talk about optimizing performance within federal IT at Defense, working with other federal agencies and the strategic vision at the Defense Department within the Quadrennial Defense Review.

The music in the podcast is John Pazdan's "The Long Goodbye," used under a Creative Commons attribution license.