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Buy PhotoIn a Jan. 10, 2017 photo, Kathleen Hicks, then director of the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic & International Studies, testifies at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. (Carlos Bongioanni/Stars and Stripes)
WASHINGTON â Kathleen Hicks will become the first woman to serve as the Pentagonâs No. 2 ranking civilian after the Senate confirmed her late Monday as deputy defense secretary.
Hicks is a longtime Washington national security expert and former Defense Department official who recently led President Joe Bidenâs Pentagon transition team. She was confirmed by voice vote and expected to be sworn into her new job early Tuesday afternoon, the Pentagon announced.
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Shyu, Blume tell Congress they plan to bridge the “valley of death” between the development phase and becoming a program of record.
The Pentagon’s budget process is not agile enough to quickly get emerging technology to soldiers on the battlefield, President Biden’s pick to oversee the Defense Department’s research and engineering efforts told Congress.
The largest roadblock, according to Heidi Shyu, is something known as the program objective memorandum, the Pentagon’s internal five-year spending plan more often called the POM. It typically takes two years at a minimum before funding for new projects can get put into the so-called POM. For context, budget planners inside the Pentagon are building the fiscal 2023 POM now.
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