Defense Management: Is Less More?

Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon R. England doesn't think much of legislative proposals to create a chief management officer at the Pentagon, the Washington Post's Stephen Barr reports. England told the House Armed Services Committee yesterday that he'd rather see his job retooled to be the department's chief operating officer, with responsibility for budgeting and management.

Overall, England said, "I am of a mind when it comes to management that less is better."