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Defense Watch: Novakovic To CSIS Board of Trustees, Port Cyber Security RFP, C-130s Back

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Friday, August 16th, 2019

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Defense Watch: Novakovic To CSIS Board of Trustees, Port Cyber Security RFP, C-130s Back

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Appointments. Phebe Novakovic, the chairman and CEO of General Dynamics, has been appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a bipartisan research think tank. Novakovic’s “strategic insights will be immensely valuable at this crucial moment for policymakers in the United States and the world,” said John Hamre, president and CEO of CSIS. President Trump announced his intent to nominate Coleen Kalina to be Executive Director of the Intelligence Oversight Board, an independent board…

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