Additionally, to establish benchmarks for government use of JOC, we interviewed staff. representatives of three local municipalities who also use job order contracting. To evaluate the JOC process, we selected six construction and three on-call engineering job.
Livia left corpses in her wake as she ruthlessly intrigued to get her one surviving son, Tiberius, to the Imperial throne - finally poisoning her second husband, the Emperor Augustus, before he could re-jig the succession one last time.
The Roman Senate wished subsequent emperors to  be more fortunate than Augustus and better than Trajan . Augustus was intelligent, decisive, and a shrewd politician, but he was not perhaps as charismatic as Julius Caesar, and was influenced on occasion by his third wife, Livia (sometimes for the worse).