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DHS Management Nominee Stresses Tailored Oversight To Acquisitions

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, June 30th, 2017

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DHS Management Nominee Stresses Tailored Oversight To Acquisitions

Claire Grady, acting deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Photo: Defense Department

Based on her experience working in the acquisition oversight communities in both the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security, the Trump administration’s nominee to head up the DHS management office told a Senate panel that one lesson for her has been that oversight of acquisitions needs to be measured according to the program.Clair Grady, who was nominated in May to be under secretary for Management at DHS, said that “From a Department of Defense perspective, one lesson I took away…

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