The Pentagon has established an agency to oversee its transformation of the defense bureaucracy's business practices and improve administrative operations, an effort that military leaders say is essential to improving the nation's ability to fight in the future. Gordon England, acting deputy defense secretary, launched the creation of the Defense Business Transformation Agency Oct. 7. The new office will lead the charge to implement changes intended to improve the military's back office operations. Paul Brinkley, deputy under secretary of defense...