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Biden Announces Transition Team Reviewing Pentagon, Led By CSIS’ Kathleen Hicks

Biden Announces Transition Team Reviewing Pentagon, Led By CSIS’ Kathleen Hicks
Kathleen Hicks, Director of CSIS' International Security Program. Photo: CSIS.

President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday announced his team leading the agency review of the Pentagon during the transition period, which will include several former Department of Defense officials and a number of think tank experts.  The team is led by Kathleen Hicks, a former principal deputy undersecretary of defense for policy and deputy undersecretary of defense for strategy, plans, and forces during the Obama administration, who now heads the Center for Strategic & International Studies’ (CSIS) International Security Program. Hicks…

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