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Trump picks Boeing executive Shanahan to become Pentagon's No.2

Published 03/16/2017, 11:42 AM
Updated 03/16/2017, 11:50 AM
© Reuters. Pat Shanahan speaks, as a curtain is raised to unveil the 747-8 jumbo passenger at the company's Everett, Washington commercial airplane manufacturing facility
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senior Boeing (N:BA) executive Patrick Shanahan is U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee to take over the No. 2 role at the Pentagon as deputy U.S. defense secretary, the White House announced on Thursday.

The White House also announced plans to nominate:

* David Norquist to become Under Secretary of Defense, Comptroller. Norquist is a partner with Kearney and Company, a Certified Public Accounting firm.

* David Joel Trachtenberg to become Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Policy. Trachtenberg is president and CEO of Shortwaver Consulting, LLC, a national security consultancy.

© Reuters. Pat Shanahan speaks, as a curtain is raised to unveil the 747-8 jumbo passenger at the company's Everett, Washington commercial airplane manufacturing facility

* Kenneth Rapuano to become Assistant Secretary of Defense, Homeland Defense and Global Security. Rapuano is senior vice president and director of the studies and analysis group at the ANSER Corporation.

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