The Defense Department has suspended all civilian hiring for the Office of the Secretary of Defense and related agencies until the Pentagon's deputy chief management officer can identify which positions will be eliminated as part of an ongoing effort to reduce and consolidate the so-called "Fourth Estate," according to a memo from the Pentagon's No. 2 official in charge. Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work wrote in a Feb. 23 memo he would freeze all civilian hiring for "OSD, defense agencies...
