The Defense Department last week proposed a sweeping set of legislative changes for lawmakers to consider adding to the 2007 authorization bill, including provisions that aim to advance key objectives of the recently completed Quadrennial Defense Review. Daniel Dell'Orto, the Defense Department's acting general counsel, on April 3 provided congressional leaders a package of legislative proposals, including 143 pages of legislative text, which would provide a number of new authorities to military officials, as called for in the QDR. Notably,...
