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Biden Nominates DIU Director Michael Brown To Serve As Pentagon’s Top Acquisition Official

Biden Nominates DIU Director Michael Brown To Serve As Pentagon’s Top Acquisition Official
Michael A. Brown, Director of Defense Innovation Unit, poses for his official portrait in the Army portrait studio at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va, Nov. 01, 2018. (U.S. Army photo by William Pratt)

President Biden announced on Friday evening he has nominated Michael Brown, the director of the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit, to serve as the department’s top acquisition official. Biden also announced he has nominated Mike McCord to serve as the Pentagon’s comptroller, a role he held during the Obama administration, and Ronald Moultrie, a former direction operations at the NSA, to be the under secretary of defense for intelligence and security. Brown has led DIU since 2018 with the administration noting…

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