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Lockheed Exec., Former DoD Senior Civilian Meet With Trump Transition Team

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2017

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Lockheed Exec., Former DoD Senior Civilian Meet With Trump Transition Team

Leo Mackay, senior vice president of Internal Audit, Ethics and Sustainability at Lockheed Martin. Photo from Mackay's LinkedIn account.

A Lockheed Martin [LMT] senior executive and a former civilian official of both the Navy and Air Force met Tuesday with Vice President-elect Mike Pence at Trump Tower in New York.Both Trump and Pence on Tuesday received national security briefings, according to Trump transition team spokesman Sean Spicer, who spoke with reporters during the Republican National Committee’s daily conference call. Trump, who has eschewed taking daily security briefings is awaiting a final report by the intelligence community on Russian interference…

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