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Ash Carter

Former Secretary of Defense

Ashton B. Carter served as U.S. Secretary of Defense from 2015 to 2017. He is the director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the author of “Inside the Five-Sided Box: Lessons from a Lifetime of Leadership in the Pentagon.”
Ashton B. Carter served as U.S. Secretary of Defense from 2015 to 2017. He is the director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the author of “Inside the Five-Sided Box: Lessons from a Lifetime of Leadership in the Pentagon.”
Defense

Viewpoint: How We Tamed the F-35’s Spiraling Costs — and Created a Model for Controlling Waste

The former defense secretary says defending America means defending taxpayers’ dollars.