Lt. Gen David Melcher, military deputy for budget, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller). Photo by Jacqueline M. Hames

(Army News Service: Washington D.C.) -- The Army’s top uniformed budget officer stressed the importance of transforming the service to a capability-focused Army Enterprise during the Army Leader Forum at the Pentagon on May 20.

Lt. Gen. David Melcher, military deputy for budget at the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (financial management and comptroller), illustrated why it’s necessary to adapt and transform the institutional Army during his presentation.

The Army should run more like an enterprise to better develop and maintain a force in a period of extended conflict, he says, in which demands exceed sustainable resources. He predicted even tighter resources over the next few years, especially with a trend of smaller supplemental budget bills to finance the war on terror.

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