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Trump Taps Silicon Valley Veteran To Lead DoD’s R&E Office

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, January 2nd, 2025

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Trump Taps Silicon Valley Veteran To Lead DoD’s R&E Office

Emil Michael, President-elect Donald Trump's prospective nominee to be under secretary of defense for research and engineering. LinkedIn photo.

President-elect Donald Trump before Christmas said he would nominate an investor, executive, and adviser to different startup companies, including the disruptive ridesharing company Uber Technologies [UBER] and space company SpaceX, to lead the Defense Department’s research and engineering (R&E) office. Emil Michael, 52, was chief business officer of Uber from 2013 until 2017, helping the company raise nearly $20 billion in investment capital, leading the merger of its operations in China with the country’s ride-hailing and bike-sharing company Didi Chiuxing,…

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