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Paul McLeary on April 27, 2021 at 4:04 PM
Then-Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics and Technology) Heidi Shyu with a Precision Sniper Rifle
WASHINGTON: Two longtime Pentagon and technology hands are likely to take over the department’s modernization efforts as Washington rushes to stay ahead of China in the race for new generations of sophisticated weapons and defenses.
Today, Heidi Shyu, a former assistant secretary of the Army, was nominated to be the Pentagon’s undersecretary for research and engineering. Earlier this month, President Joe Biden nominated Mike Brown, director of the Defense Innovation Unit, to serve as undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment.