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Navy Vice Adm. Joe Dyer (left), chairman of the Business Initiatives Council Executive Steering Committee, and Rear Adm. Robert E. Cowley, executive director Business Initiatives Council, brief reporters on some of the accomplishments of the organization at a Pentagon news briefing on Nov. 7, 2001. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld created the council to identify good business practices from the private sector and apply them to the work of the Department of Defense.

Vice Adm. Dyer and Rear Adm. Cowley, of the Business Initiatives Council, brief reporters in the Pentagon.

Navy Vice Adm. Joe Dyer (left), chairman of the Business Initiatives Council Executive Steering Committee, and Rear Adm. Robert E. Cowley, executive director Business Initiatives Council, brief reporters on some of the accomplishments of the organization at a Pentagon news briefing on Nov. 7, 2001. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld created the council to identify good business practices from the private sector and apply them to the work of the Department of Defense.

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