Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn so far has not convened a senior decision-making panel positioned by his predecessor as a pivotal organization in overseeing the process of capability portfolio management, according to several sources. Gordon England, Defense Secretary Robert Gates' former deputy, used the Deputy's Advisory Working Group extensively to review high-level decisions touching on virtually all aspects of the Pentagon bureaucracy overseeing the military's multibillion-dollar weapon programs. England formalized the panel's role in capability portfolio management last September, when...
