President Obama on Monday announced his intent to nominate Harvard physicist Ashton Carter as his choice to be the Pentagon’s top weapons buyer. Carter would replace John Young who has been in that post since November 2007 and stayed on after the Bush Administration left power to ease the Presidential transition. Carter is currently chair of the international and global affairs faculty at Harvard’s Kennedy School. He served under the first Clinton Administration as assistant secretary of defense for international security policy from 1993 to 1996. According to the short biography in the White house release, in his earlier DOD post, Carter directed military planning during the 1994 North Korean nuclear crisis; was instrumental in removing all ex-Soviet nuclear weapons from Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine; and managed the cooperative threat reduction program. (For more, read AFPS report, and Monday’s Politico report and Boston Globe report.)
Boeing Claims Progress on T-7 and Other Challenged Programs
April 25, 2025
Boeing appears to have become to overcome the problems that led to billions in losses on fixed-price defense contracts in recent years, point the company back toward profitabily, says Boeing president and CEO Kelly Ortberg.