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Congress

SASC OKs Lockheed Executive For DoD Policy Post

By Marc Selinger

Thursday, November 30th, 2017

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SASC OKs Lockheed Executive For DoD Policy Post

The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) approved Lockheed Martin [LMT] executive John Rood to be undersecretary of defense for policy Nov. 30 despite concerns among some lawmakers about the number of Pentagon appointees who hail from top defense firms.Those concerns flared at a Nov. 16 hearing, where Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), the committee’s chairman, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) grilled Rood about how he would recuse himself from matters involving his latest employer to avoid conflicts of interest (Defense Daily,…

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