Defense Reform Initiative Directives (DRIDs)

After the DRI report was released in November 1997, Defense Reform Initiative Directives (DRIDs) were released covering issues that required reports to the Deputy Secretary of Defense on the implementation status of most of the initiatives identified in a DRID or report. Many new ideas emerged for changing the way we do business. Sometimes they took the form of DRIDs and others were informal reviews.

93% Complete
(as of January 2001)

1. Personnel Downsizing Plans (21 Nov 1997)
2. New Defense Security Service (25 Nov 1997)
3. Defense Technical Information Center (25 Nov 1997)
4. Defense Privacy Office (25 Nov 1997)
5. Directorate for Freedom of Information and Security Review (25 Nov 1997)
6. Appointment of the Team to Create the Defense Threat Reduction and Treaty Compliance Agency (3 Dec 1997) 
7. Overseas Military Banking Program (5 Dec 1997)
8. Reducing the Number of Committees (10 Dec 1997)
9. Privatizing Utility Systems (10 Dec 1997)
10. Establishment of Task Force on Implementing Competition and Infrastructure Initiatives (19 Dec 1997) 
11. Reorganization of DoD Space Management Responsibilities (19 Dec 1997)
12. Transfer Humanitarian Assitance and Demining Programs to the Defense Security Assistance Agency (22 Dec 1997) 
13. Defense Management Council Charter (22 Dec 1997)
14. Establishment of the TRICARE Management Support Activity (5 Jan 1998)
15. Establishment of Office of the Secretary of Defense Human Resources Transition Program (5 Jan 1998) 
16. Transfer the Nuclear Command and Control System Function and Support Staff to the U.S. Strategic Command (5 Jan 1998) 
17. Appointment of the Team to Develop a Blueprint to Merge Command, Control, Communications, and Computing Functions and the Development and Acquisition of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Systems (C4 and ISR Systems) into the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology (5 Jan 1998)
18. Feasibility of Competing Functions Involved in National Stockpile Sales (5 Jan 1998) 
19. Transfer of the Defense Property Accountability System to the Defense Logistics Agency (14 Jan 1998) 
20. Review of Inherently Governmental Functions (16 Jan 1998)
21. Formation of the Defense Energy Support Center (16 Jan 1998)
22. Transfer Out Counterdrug Personnel to the DoD Components (16 Jan 1998)
23. Defense Agency Performance Contracts (26 Jan 1998)
24. Planning for Defense Reform Initiative Organizational Realignments (26 Jan 1998)
25. DoD Plan for Integration of the National Guard and Reserve Component into Domestic Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism Response (26 Jan 1998) 
26. Establishment of a Defense Management Council Task Force for Defense Reform Initiative Communication (26 Jan 1998) 
27. DoD Computer Forensics Laboratory and Training Program (10 Feb 1998)
28. Devolvement of the Chemical Weapons Demilitarization Function (12 Feb 1998)
29. Joint Activities Study (25 Feb 1998)
30. Initial Organizational Activity Regarding the Establishment of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (25 Feb 1998) 
31. Realignment of DoD Spectrum Management Responsibilities (23 MarCH 1998)
32. Paperless Contract Closeout (13 Apr 1998)
33. Paperless DD Form 250, Material Inspection and Receiving Report (13 Apr 1998)
34. Transfer of Warsaw Initiative (Partnership for Peace) Program Management Functions to the Defense Security Assistance Agency Form 250, Material Inspection and Receiving Report (05 May 1998)
35. Location of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency Headquarters and Support Offices (05 May 1998) 
36. Disposal/Demolition of Excess Structures (05 May 1998)
37. Oversight of the Defense Commissary Agency - Revised (23 Dec 1998)
38. Funding Requirements for DoD Spectrum Management Responsibilities (06 May 1998)
39. Travel Reengineering (11 May 1998)
40. Redesignation of the Defense Security Assistance Agency as the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (20 May 1998)
41. Development of a Blueprint for the Chancellor for Education and Professional Development (18 May 1998)
42. Transfer of the Space Policy Function(20 May 1998)
43. Defense-wide Electronic Commerce (20 May 1998)
44. Paper-Free Program Objectives Memorandum Submission (02 Jun 1998)
45. Prime Vendor Contracting Program for Facility Maintenance Supplies (24 Aug 1998)
46. Paperless Contracting (09 Dec 1998)
47. End-to-End Procurement Process (09 Dec 1998)
48. Adoption of Commercial EDI Standards for DoD Logistics Business Transactions (09 Dec 1998)
49. Privatizing Utility Systems (23 Dec 1998)
50. Reengineering of Relocation and Reserve Component Travel (27 Jun 1999)
51. Transfer of the Defense Property Accountability System to the Defense Logistics Agency (29 Jun 1999) 
52. Defense Acquisition University (DAU) Consolidation (08 Nov 1999) 
53. Reconciliation of Contracts in the Mechanization of Contract Administration Services (MOCAS) System (23 Mar 2000)
54. Logistics Transformation (23 Mar 2000)