Policy Memo Help: How Detailed?

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I know that a policy memo should be brief and straight to the point, but in a real policy memo you can gauge the knowledge of the recipient of the issues discussed, but the admissions committee may very well not know about the specific topic or background from which you make the memo.  I feel that I need to dedicate a portion of the memo to explain the topic/issue since it m ay be peculiar to the country/subject matter of the memo.  Is this ok, or should I write it as if the recipient is the actual person named in the memo?

Also, how detailed must it have to be?  For example, if I say that we should dedicate more government employees to work on Proposal A, do I need to get into where we will get them from, how we will budget for them, how many man hours will they dedicate, etc.  Or should it be high level?  I am directing it to a head of a government agency, so I would assume he/she would let someone else flesh out the details of execution.