Ellen Lord

Ellen Lord
Ellen Lord
Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment
	In office; February 1, 2018 – January 20, 2021
President	Donald Trump
Preceded by	Position established
Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics
	In office; August 10, 2017 – February 1, 2018
President	Donald Trump
Preceded by	Jimmy MacStravic
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Personal details
Education	Connecticut College (B.A.)[1]; University of New Hampshire (M.S.)[1]

Ellen M. Lord is an American businesswoman and government official who previously served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment in the Trump administration.[2] She was previously the CEO of Textron Systems, a global aerospace, defense, security, and advanced technologies industrial conglomerate.[3][4] In her position, she is the chief weapons purchaser for the United States, responsible for overseeing hundreds of billions of dollars of weapons and services acquisitions programs in the United States Department of Defense.[5]

Lord served as vice chairwoman of the National Defense Industrial Association and as a member of the Center for a New American Security's task force on strategy, technology, and the global defense industry. She was also a board member of the Defense Technology Initiative, the Naval Institute Foundation, and the U.S.-India Business Council.[6]

References

"Ellen M. Lord". U.S. Department of Defense. Retrieved April 19, 2020.
"Cummings to serve as acting Pentagon acquisition head". Defense News. 13 January 2021. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
Mehta, Aaron (June 27, 2017). "Ellen Lord, Textron System CEO, nominated for undersecretary of AT&L". Defense News. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
Mehta, Aaron; Shane III, Leo (August 2, 2017). "New Navy secretary, 7 other DoD officials confirmed by Senate". Defense News. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
Rogin, Josh (June 9, 2017). "Pentagon to get a new policy chief". Washington Post. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
Edwards, Jane (June 28, 2017). "Textron Systems CEO Ellen Lord to Be Nominated as Pentagon Acquisition Chief". Executive Gov. Retrieved 3 August 2017.

External links

Media related to Ellen Lord at Wikimedia Commons
Biography at the Department of Defense

Political offices
Preceded by Jimmy MacStravic Acting	Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment 2017-2021	Succeeded by Stacy A. Cummings Acting

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[DoDbio-1] "Ellen M. Lord". U.S. Department of Defense. Retrieved April 19, 2020.

[2] "Cummings to serve as acting Pentagon acquisition head". Defense News. 13 January 2021. Retrieved 30 January 2021.

[3] Mehta, Aaron (June 27, 2017). "Ellen Lord, Textron System CEO, nominated for undersecretary of AT&L". Defense News. Retrieved 3 August 2017.

[4] Mehta, Aaron; Shane III, Leo (August 2, 2017). "New Navy secretary, 7 other DoD officials confirmed by Senate". Defense News. Retrieved 3 August 2017.

[5] Rogin, Josh (June 9, 2017). "Pentagon to get a new policy chief". Washington Post. Retrieved 3 August 2017.

[6] Edwards, Jane (June 28, 2017). "Textron Systems CEO Ellen Lord to Be Nominated as Pentagon Acquisition Chief". Executive Gov. Retrieved 3 August 2017.