The White House has vetted Ms. Warren and at least two other candidates for the job, officials say.
Should Mr. Daley for some reason not get the job, officials said, Mr. Rouse would stay on.
Gen. Robert A. Harding, to lead the Transportation Security Administration, a job officials call the most important unfilled position in the administration.
Additional training would depend on how similar the new Army job was to the Navy or Air Force job, officials said.
Thursday by Middletown police officers who pulled him over as he was driving to his city job, officials said.
In nearby towns, that ratio soars to 70 or 80 people for every available job, officials say.
Two ambulance workers, who were provisional employees not protected by civil service regulations, were fired after they, too, were found sleeping on the job, officials said.
A total of 807 officers, nearly a quarter of the 3,776 who resigned or retired last year, had less than five years on the job, officials said.
To do the job, officials chose neighborhood watch committee members, the omnipresent army of retirees who, once upon a time, were charged with making sure couples adhered to family planning rules while keeping an eye out for potential counterrevolutionaries.
THE NEWS Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, the chief of the Pakistani Army and the most powerful man in the country, is fighting to save his job, officials and people who have met him lately said.
