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The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment (OUSD(A&S)) is focused on forming an acquisition system that moves at the speed of relevance, and to do that, has been shaped into an organization that provides a defense-wide adaptive acquisition framework from need identification to disposal.
Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition; In office May 29, 2024 – January 20, 2025: President: Joe Biden: Preceded by: Cara L. Abercrombie: Succeeded by: Brent Ingraham (acting) Personal details; Education: Lehigh University South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Shanahan withdrew from consideration for Secretary of Defense. [54] Deputy Secretary of Defense: July 19, 2017 January 1, 2019 Became Acting Secretary of Defense. Robert O. Work: May 1, 2014 July 14, 2017 Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Defense Kevin M. Sweeney January 23, 2017 January 5, 2019 [55] Eric Chewning: January 6, 2019 January 31 ...
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Acquisition) Cara L. Abercrombie: March 5, 2024 [50] (Confirmed February 27, 2024 by voice vote) [V 17] — — Assistant Secretary of Defense (Energy, Installations and Environment) Brendan Owens [15] January 26, 2023 (Confirmed January 23, 2023, 60–35) [RC 12] — — Assistant Secretary of Defense ...
The position is the principal advisor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Defense on matters relating to acquisition program management; the Department of Defense Acquisition System; and the development of strategic, space, intelligence, tactical warfare ...
Radha Iyengar Plumb is an American government official currently serving as the chief digital and artificial intelligence officer in the U.S. Department of Defense. She previously served as Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment. She was confirmed for that position by the U.S. Senate on April 18, 2023 and assumed ...
Lastly, she was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for South and Southeast Asia from 2016 to 2017. Later in 2017, Abercrombie was a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. After returning to the Defense Department, she assumed the role of Principal Director for Security Cooperation Workforce Development.
In a memo dated March 6, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth directed the Department of Defense (DoD) to prioritize a new software acquisition effort he hopes will enhance the lethality of the U.S ...