The Pentagon plans to wring $12 billion in contractor jobs from military payrolls over the next six years as part of a campaign to improve management of the defense bureaucracy, according to documents and government officials. The Pentagon's fiscal year 2006 budget request now before Congress includes a $2 billion cut to a wide range of contractor services that was imposed before Christmas as part of a $30 billion reduction to the Defense Department's 2006 to 2011 spending plan. "This...
