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DoD Comptroller Named as Acting Deputy Defense Secretary

By Vivienne Machi

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2019

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DoD Comptroller Named as Acting Deputy Defense Secretary

Chief Financial Officer David Norquist will take over as acting deputy secretary of defense. (Sgt. Amber I. Smith/U.S. Defense Department)

The Defense Department’s Chief Financial Officer and Comptroller David Norquist has assumed the role of acting deputy defense secretary as Patrick Shanahan took over as Pentagon civilian chief on Jan. 1, the department said Jan. 2. “As Department of Defense Chief Financial Officer and Comptroller for the past 19 months, David Norquist has had insight into virtually every tenet of this department,” Shanahan said in a statement Wednesday. “I have the greatest confidence in his abilities to lead a phenomenally…

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