The third longest-serving deputy secretary of defense, William J. Lynn III, will be resigning this fall. The nation’s 30th deputy secretary has spent the last two decades in government service, beginning with
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Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III helped launch last week a new $500 million-dollar government initiative aimed at bolstering “advanced manufacturing,” by bringing together private industry, academia and the government to
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Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III said the Defense Department needs the defense industry to take the long view as Pentagon budgets are expected to be cut. “Those of us in
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Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III unveiled the Defense Department’s new energy strategy at a Pentagon briefing yesterday, describing the plan as a way to increase energy efficiency and adapt the
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Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn, speaking at a cybersecurity conference Tuesday, said military might is not enough to protect the nation’s cyberspace and that the best minds in the private sector
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Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III sat down at the table with NATO and European Union officials to discuss the cyber threat. Leaders agreed NATO must take the lead in confronting
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The Defense Department’s executive secretary issued a memo this week instructing DoD officials to refrain from using acronyms in written correspondence with Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, according to a report on
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates was honored with the American Patriot Award from National Defense University for his work in defense, including service under eight presidents in a career spanning four decades.
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Once the final frontier, space has become “congested, contested and competitive,” Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III said at the U.S. Strategic Command space symposium in Omaha, Neb. But the United
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Cyber attacks against the Defense Department declined in 2010, according to a report by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission and reported on by Wired’s Danger Room blog. In the first
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