Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England has approved a raft of new reforms designed to improve governance of the massive military bureaucracy by recalibrating how the Pentagon charts its strategic direction, sets priorities for future weapon system investments, and manages development of new combat capabilities. England, in a March 15 memo, approved six "institutional reform and governance" initiatives that collectively are the result of work begun two years ago at the outset of the Quadrennial Defense Review. The goal is to...