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SASC to Hold Nomination Hearing Next Week for LaPlante

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, March 15th, 2022

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SASC to Hold Nomination Hearing Next Week for LaPlante

Former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition William LaPlante. Photo: Air Force.

After more than a year without a permanent Pentagon acquisition chief, DoD may get one soon. President Biden nominated former U.S. Air Force acquisition boss William LaPlante to the post last November, and the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) is to hold a nomination hearing for him on March 22. Michael Brown, director of the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), was the Biden administration’s original nominee to be the department’s acquisition leader before he withdrew his nomination last July (Defense Daily,…

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