Robert Hale

Stories by Robert Hale

Why DoD’s Year-End Spending Needs to Change

Why DoD’s Year-End Spending Needs to Change
Why DoD’s Year-End Spending Needs to Change

As the end of the fiscal year approaches at the Department of Defense (DoD), teams at most defense organizations are working hard to spend all the funds in the Pentagon’s day-to-day operating budgets, which are available for use only during the ourrent fiscal year. To do otherwise, they fear, would suggest that not all available funds…

How DoD Can Manage The Great Bow Wave

How DoD Can Manage The Great Bow Wave
How DoD Can Manage The Great Bow Wave

  Bob Hale knows budgets. He crafted them for the Air Force and he crafted them for the entire Defense Department. America faces a large spending spike by 2025 that grows even larger later. So, how can America manage this spending? Bob presents three approaches he thinks will work. Don’t get too depressed and read…

The Hare And The Tortoise: Slowing The Growth in Military Pay, Benefits

The Hare And The Tortoise: Slowing The Growth in Military Pay, Benefits
The Hare And The Tortoise: Slowing The Growth in Military Pay, Benefits

Robert Hale, former budget god (comptroller) at the Pentagon, is good with numbers, especially defense budget numbers. And he speaks about them in clear, simply structured and well expressed English. Here he tackles one of the two or three thorniest issues facing the leadership of the US military: how to rein in the enormous growth…

Sequestration: Don’t Believe All The Hype

Sequestration: Don’t Believe All The Hype
Sequestration: Don’t Believe All The Hype

Bob Hale regularly demonstrated his better qualities during testimony before Congress, delivering highly complex facts and judgments about the Defense Department’s spending and budgets to the public with a knowing humor delivered with the sort of gravelly voice you’d expect from one of those old country lawyers.  Hale served as DoD comptroller from 2009 to 2014, and, before…