Pentagon Purse Strings: An Interview with Lisa Hershman, Chief Management Officer of the Pentagon
Channel: R Street Institute
Date: 2021-03-16

When: Thursday, March, 11, 12:00pm-1:00pm ET
Where: Zoom webinar
Who:

-Lisa Hershman, Former Pentagon Chief Management Officer
-Jonathan Bydlak, R Street Institute
-Andrew Lautz, National Taxpayers Union
-Mark Cancian (Colonel, USMCR, ret.), Senior Adviser with the CSIS International Security Program.

On Thursday, March 11 at 12:00 p.m. ET, Pentagon Chief Management Officer Lisa Hershman will join National Taxpayers Union (NTU) Andrew Lautz and R Street’s Jonathan Bydlak for the second webinar in their Pentagon Purse Strings series. Hershman, the third-ranking civilian officer at the Pentagon and the highest-ranking woman ever confirmed by the U.S. Senate to a Pentagon position will discuss her reform efforts at DoD, how the Pentagon can deliver new savings and efficiencies for taxpayers in the future, and more. Afterwards, Bydlak and Lautz will be joined by Mark Cancian, a defense policy expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, to discuss DoD management reform.

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