Insights: Applying private-sector Merger and Acquisition strategies to public-sector cost-reduction challenges

Summary: Congress has enacted legislation that requires 1.2 trillion in budget cuts before January 2013, but where these cuts are made and how they will be implemented is up for debate. The latest episode of Deloitte Insights features Robin Lineberger, chief executive officer of Federal Government Services, Deloitte LLP, John Powers, principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP, and JoAnn Boutelle, partner, Deloitte and Touche LLP. Tune in to learn how Federal agencies, through merging, integrating, consolidating, and divesting, can reduce inefficiencies and redundancies without significantly impacting their core missions.