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Business/Financial

Obama Nominating Carter To Be DoD Acquisition Czar

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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

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By Emelie Rutherford President Obama announced yesterday he intends to nominate Harvard professor Ashton Carter to be the Pentagon's under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology, and logistics. If the nomination is confirmed by the Senate Armed Services Committee and full Senate, Carter would replace John Young, who held the high-profile post in the end of the Bush administration and has remained on the job in a temporary status. Defense sources have buzzed about Carter's expected nomination since early last month.…

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