Defense

Defence Department faces blitz on bureaucracy as 'red tape' czar is appointed

Canberra's massive Defence Establishment is facing a fresh assault on its internal "red tape" and "layers of bureaucracy" with a hand-picked bureaucracy buster recruited to oversee the blitz.

Yet more of the city's 9000 Defence public servants face an uncertain future with very few of the department's backroom activities off-limits as the Abbott government looks to put the brake on Defence's spiralling $32 billion budget.