Department of Defense | April 27, 2009
According to a Department of Defense press release, Dr. Ashton Carter was sworn in as Under Secretary for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics on April 27, 2009. Before returning to Washington, Dr. Carter was chair of the International and Global Affairs faculty at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and Co-Director of the Preventive Defense Project (with former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry). In 1984, Dr. Carter prepared a report for OTA, Directed Energy Missile Defense In Space.