editor sebastian springer sat down with former defense department controller and booz allen fellow, bobtail, and asked whether business savvy might serve him well. >> i think the private sector attitude is useful, and it brings with it a sense of trying to improve the processes there, which i think can potentially save money. i think he also needs to keep in mind that dod is different in some important ways than a private business. 500 35 thing, it has members on its board of directors and members of congress sometimes have -- they are serving their constituents interests and it doesn't always make it easy to run dod like a business. its mission is unique, when something goes wrong in national security, you have to enter the market if you want to call it that. it doesn't have a choice. many companies have their clients shooting at them. i think there's also some important differences, you won't be able to run dod strictly like a business. >> i assume that a cries -- applies across the board to public sector, running the public sector and private sector? >> i've had more experience with dod.