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Air Force

Pentagon Names Deputy For JSF Program

Defense Daily Staff

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012

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The Pentagon yesterday named a new deputy program executive officer for the Joint Strike Fighter, as a new team to oversee the most expensive weapons program in the building’s history readies to takeover. Rear Adm. Randolph Mahr has been tapped to become the deputy director of the F-35 fighter program under the Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall. The announcement was made by Navy Secretary Ray Mabus and Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Jonathan Greenert in a Pentagon statement. Mahr would…

Congress

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