Ash Carter Tapped as Next Defense Secretary

[Zebra]

Reports: Ash Carter Tapped as Next Defense Secretary | Defense News | defensenews.com

Dec. 1, 2014 - 03:45AM |
By PAUL McLEARY

WASHINGTON — Ashton Carter, the former deputy defense secretary, will be nominated to be the next defense secretary to replace Chuck Hagel, sources have told CNN and The Associated Press.

Carter served as the Pentagon's No. 2 civilian official from October 2011 to December 2013, and had a stint as the Pentagon's chief weapons buyer before that. He has mostly kept quiet since leaving the Pentagon.

Described as an "uber wonk" by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey at Carter's farewell ceremony last year, Carter was in the thick of the wartime rapid fielding initiatives of the past decade, playing a key role in procuring tens of thousands of hulking MRAPs to Iraq and Afghanistan in just about two years......

 

[Zebra]

India friend Ashton Carter is Obama pick for Pentagon chief | idrw.org