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Nelson Ford Tapped As Acting Army Under Secretary

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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

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Nelson Ford, assistant secretary of the Army for Financial Management and Comptroller (ASA(FM&C)), has been named Acting Under Secretary of the Army. Ford has served as the assistant secretary of the Army for Financial Management and Comptroller from October 2006 until the present. Previously, he was principal deputy assistant secretary of the Army for Controls in the Office of ASA (FM&C) from 2005 to 2006. From 2002 through 2004, he was Defense Department deputy assistant secretary for Health Budgets &…

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