Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England is moving to iron out a stubborn bureaucratic wrinkle over the leadership of the military's vast logistics system in a bid to propel the Defense Department toward its goal of establishing a cohesive distribution network reaching from factory to foxhole. In a May 8 memo to Defense Department military and civilian leaders, England conferred on Gen. Norton Schwartz, commander of U.S. Transportation Command, the mantle of "distribution process owner" (DPO) for DOD, and directed him...
